JEFF BUCKLEY. SO REAL. The Photography of Merri Cyr.

96 pages, soft cover, 24x29,5cm, 29 Euros. Published by Wall Of Sound Gallery to coincide with photographer Merri Cyr's 2014 exhibition, Jeff Buckley. So real celebrates "the sexiest voice ever heard on Earth" on the Grace album's 20th anniversary. Merri Cyr’s photos of Jeff Buckley were everywhere on every record cover of his and all over the press. They were honest, witty, experimental, somehow iconic in their own sweet way and, most important of all, they revealed a highly peculiar chemistry between the photographer and her subject. On this basis the two almost immediately formed one of the strongest and most mutually trusting creative relationships in music ever.
Wall Of Sound Gallery is delighted and honored to showcase, for the first time in Italy, these touching and highly personal photographs by Merri: over 50 images (and a larger number in this book), many of which have never or rarely been seen or exhibited before.They chart Buckley’s rise to fame and document his meteoric career, providing a stunningly personal insight into one of the most mysterious music legends of all time.

You can order a signed copy emailing us at info@wallofsoundgallery.com.

KATE BUSH. PHOTOGRAPHS BY GUIDO HARARI.

64 pages, soft cover, 22x22cm, limited edition, 50 Euros. Published by Wall Of Sound Gallery to coincide with Guido Harari's exhibition of his Kate Bush photographs at Snap Galleries in London, this book features a selection of images spanning from 1982 to 1993. Guido's collaboration with Kate began in 1982 when she was promoting her album The Dreaming. Impressed by his work with her mentor Lindsay Kemp, Kate summoned Guido to shoot her official press photos for landmark albums like Hounds Of Love, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, including a completely never-before-seen reportage on the set of Kate’s film The Line, The Cross & The Curve.

"I was familiar with her wild and esoteric imagery", Guido recalls of the 1985 shoot for Hounds Of Love. "And I wondered which direction she would want to explore now with me. Was I to be swept in her creative maelstrom? Well, not really. It became clear that for once  she wanted to strip herself of unwanted clichés and wild personas and asked me to capture something authentic, something as close as possible to “reality”. That had been the essence of my work with Lindsay Kemp and I believe that, without ever verbalizing it, she wanted me to move in the same direction with our shoot. I felt trust and complicity as we worked almost telepathically". 

This book is now sold out. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hounds Of Love Guido plans to publish in 2015 a lavish limited edition book, The Kate Inside, full of unseen photographs from his entire Kate Bush archives, including a few suprirses as ephemera, test Polaroids and notes by Kate. Stay tuned for more updates soon. You're welcome to email us to register your interest at info@wallofsoundgallery.com.