Exhibit Showcases Photos Of Iconic Musicians
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The loft at the Morrison Hotel Gallery, which specializes in fine art music photography, has hung a show, "In Session", at the Columbia Records 30th Street Studio.
It is selling silver gelatin limited-edition prints of some of the world's most famous musicians from the Sony Icon Collectibles archive. Among those that were photographed in session are Bob Dylan, Benny Goodman, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, a pre-Mohammed Ali Cassius Clay recording a spoken word album and Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison recording the soundtrack for "My Fair Lady".
Peter Blachley is a founder of the Morrison Hotel Gallery.
"They were taken some years ago in the ‘50s and the ‘60s by a staff photographer by the name Don Hunstein,” says Blachley. “Don was employed by Sony to go down in the studios and to photograph the musicians who were working at that time and Sony did a great job in preserving the archives of all their negatives and transparencies."
The Morrison Hotel Gallery is named for the iconic 1969 cover of the Doors album of the same name by photographer Henry Diltz. The gallery has many other photographs of musicians, such as a photograph of the young Beatles in the’ 60s taken outside the Abbey Road studios.
“There's an emotional connection to these photographs just like there's an emotional connection to the music of these artists we play,” says Blachley. “If you look at the mid part of the 20th century from 1945 to 1975, there was a cultural renaissance in western popular music and most of these photographs that we have represent that."
“In Session” at the Columbia 30th Street Studio will be up at the Morrison Hotel Gallery now through September 5th.