Rejoice! Bob Dylan wins the Nobel prixe in literature 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”! A long way from the early beginnings when he first moved to New York City in 1962. The American photographer Joe Alper captured his blossoming talent in so many candid portraits that Wall Of Sound Gallery presented in the 2014 Dylan before Dylan exhibition.
Everything is ready for the opening of The Kate Inside, Guido Harari‘s exhibition of his photographs of Kate Bush at the Art Bermondsey Project Space, in London. The show will run from Sept. 13 to 30 and will be launched with an artist reception on Sept. 14 and a special Q&A with Guido and Lindsay Kemp on Sept. 16 at the Underdog Gallery, close to the Project Space. On Sept. 17 there will also be a “meet & greet” for book subscribers with Guido and Lindsay Kemp. Meanwhile we are receiving the first copies of the limited edition book and will be shipping them soon on a daily basis, in chronological order.
Today marks the 58th anniversary of Art Kane‘s legendary “Harlem 1958” photograph. The “Daily News” has written a great long form piece about the photo and you can enjoy it here. The interactive element is only available on computers but it’s fantastic: a performance clip for each musician when you click.
September will be hot again, marked by the publication of Guido Harari‘s “The Kate Inside” limited edition book of his photos of Kate Bush. This will tie in with a special London exhibition at the Art Bermondsey Project Space, 183-185 Bermondsey Street, SE1 (5 min walk from the London Bridge tube station). Hours: 11am – 6pm (Monday closed). Free entrance.
The show will open on Sept. 13 until Sept. 30 and will be bigger and very different from Guido’s 2014 exhibition at Snap Galleries. It will feature over 50 images, classic and unseen, available for purchase in different sizes. “The Kate Inside” limited edition book will also be available.
On Friday Sept. 16th a special “Q&A” is planned with Lindsay Kemp, who co-signed the Deluxe edition, Guido, Stewart Avon Arnold, Del Palmer and other special guests TBA. More details closer to the date. Also on Saturday Sept. 17th a loose “Meet & Greet” with Lindsay and Guido has been scheduled for book subscribers.
The gallery will stay open on Sundays too, 11am – 6pm.
We’re very proud to announce the opening of the “Heroes | Bowie | Sukita” exhibition at Wall Of Sound Gallery, in Alba, on Sept. 4th, with over 40 photographs by the celebrated Japanese author of Bowie‘s Heroes album cover. Yes, that’s the very same image that Bowie used again more recently for his album The Next Day. The show is curated in collaboration with ONO Arte Contemporanea and covers over 40 years of collaboration, friendship and shared creativity. A special catalogue will be published for the occasion by Wall Of Sound Gallery. Sukita will attend the opening on the 4th at 3pm and will gladly meet the public with a special “Q&A” at Nuova Sala Beppe Fenoglio at 5.30pm on the same day.
Bruce Springsteen‘s River Tour will soon hit Italy in July. We’re very proud to announce that fhe first ever exhibition in Italy of Frank Stefanko‘s historic photographs will open at WOS on July 2. Frank has captured Springsteen mainly between 1978 and 1982, but also later. The most recent images in the show were taken in 2004. Frank’s images were used on the covers of milestone albums like Darkness On The Edge Of Town e The River. His will also be the cover shot for Bruce’s upcoming autobiography, Born To Run, due out on Sept. 27. Stefanko will attend the opening to meet his Italian fans and sign copies of his book Days of Hope and Dreams (Giorni di sogni e speranza), published in Italy by Arcana.
Guido Harari‘s “Wall Of Sound” exhibition will open tonight at the celebrated Rockheim (National Museum of Popular Music) in Trondheim, Norway. This is Guido’s first international museum show of his music photography. It features more than 70 photographs from all of his “career”, with many unseen or never exhibited before. Images include such artists as Bob Dylan, George Harrison, David Bowie, Prince, Bob Marley, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, The Rolling Stones, Queen, The Kinks, The Police, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Leonard Cohen, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana, Bruce Soringsteen, Little Steven, Jackson Browne, Nick Cave, Robert Wyatt, Marianne Faithfull, Robert Smith of The Cure, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Van Morrison, Chuck Berry, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, Steve Winwood, Todd Rundgren, Nina Hagen and of course Norwegian artists Jan Garbarek, a-ha, Mari Boine Persen and Sondre Lerche. The show will close on March 5, 2017. For all infos and catalogue orders click here.
The “Jeff Buckley. So Real” exhibition of Merri Cyr‘s iconic photographs of the late great Jeff Buckley will open today in Bologna, at ONO Arte Contemporanea. The show will run till June 11. You can certainly order the exhibition catalogue emailing us at info@wallofsoundgallery.com.
Happy B-Day Fabrizio De André who would turn 76 today! We celebrate him with this 1979 photograph by Guido Harari, who was the official photographer of Fabrizio’s legendary tour with PFM. Guido has also put together a visual diary of that historic tour along with PFM’s Franz Di Cioccio, Evaporati in una nuvola rock, published by Chiarelettere. The book features contributions by all the original band members, Fabrizio’s wife Dori Ghezzi, Fabrizio’s son Cristiano De André, Vasco Rossi, Angelo Branduardi, Claudio Baglioni, Davide Riondino, Lucio Salvini and more.
You may know that visionary photographer ART KANE conceived and directed a film in 1967 called “A Time To Play” that was featured at the USA pavilion at Expo ’67 in Montreal. It’s use of three screens was way ahead of its time. Each screen is incredibly composed. The editing is brilliant. And as usual for Art Kane, it’s a vision of a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society that the world is still trying to catch up with.
With the exception of an old VHS tape, this amazing film has been pretty much MIA. Until now. Last week Jonathan Kane was contacted by some wonderful people at The National Archive in Washington DC and the University of Maryland, who have found and restored the original film. Amazing!
Have a look here. It’s a short film of 20 minutes, and worth every second.
