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Music Photography: 1963-1997

20.03 - 21.04.24

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SOL LDN are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Iconic Images, whose extensive archives contain historically important works by the photographers that stood at the frontline of fashion, rock, film, politics and royalty.

‘Music Photography’ brings together the work of Kevin Cummins, Norman Seeff and Terry O’Neill; three photographers who documented some of the world’s greatest musicians from the mid-to-late 20th century. Be it on stage, in the recording studio, posing for an album cover or shot candidly, this online exhibition takes us back through thirty of the most prominent years in ‘rock & roll’ history.

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British photographer Terry O’Neill captured many of the artists to have come out of London in the swinging sixties. Beginning in 1963, O’Neill documented the Beatles during the early days of ‘Beetlemania’ and the young faces of The Rolling Stones down in Soho’s Tin Pan Alley. His photographs bear witness to rumblings of an emerging counterculture; an era of rebellion and experimentation that snowballed into the following three decades.

Working mostly in the seventies, Norman Seeff presents us with a similar attitude developing in America. Having left Johannesburg for New York in 1969, Seeff began his career on the streets of Manhattan, befriending some of the world’s most provocative artists of the time, personalities like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. His photographs have an energy and spontaneity, reflecting the remarkable innovation of his subjects.

Back in the UK, Kevin Cummins’ prolific archive spans three decades of British music. Shooting for NME, Cummins’ documented the vibrant postmodern culture that formed in Manchester between the 1970s-1990s. From The Smiths to Oasis, Cummins’ photographs helped to define the cultural history of the city and remain embedded in the cultural memory of the north.

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