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Bob Gruen
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What’s significant is not simply that he is the single-most important photographer of record to document the Punk, proto-punk and New Wave scenes of America and England, but that this seminal body of work reflects a profound commitment and long-standing personal friendship with the artists and personalities who shaped and defined the music of that remarkable era.
As a friend, fan and photographer of rock without peer, Bob Gruen’s relationship with the fringes of this medium has continued with an unrelenting intensity of devotion and vision from the Sixties to the present. More than merely telling the story of rock, his tremendous wealth of personal experiences and uncanny memory provide one of the most illuminating and comprehensive histories of rock youth-culture in New York.
Several of his photographs – John Lennon in shades and New York City T-shirt; the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious, streaked with blood playing bass; business suited and made-up Kiss on the cover of “Dressed to Kill”; Jimmy Page in full double-neck guitar splendor, or posed with the other members of Led Zeppelin in front of their custom 707 jet; Chuck Berry, The Who, Mick Jagger, Bob Marley, and Madonna in concert – have achieved iconic and classic stature worldwide.
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