We’re deeply saddened by the sudden passing of one of our all time music heroes, the great Texas blues legend Johnny Winter. We extend our condolences to his family and his manager Paul Nelson. We celebrate Johnny with these two iconic images by two great photographers: Art Kane (color image, late Sixties) and Norman Seeff (b/w image, Los Angeles, late Sixties too).
The heat is on! Our friends at Snap Galleries in London will launch an expanded version of our Kate Bush show to tie in with her Before The Dawn concerts at London’s Eventim Apollo. It will be called “A Celebration of Kate Bush through the lenses of Gered Mankowitz and Guido Harari” and it will run from August 26 to October 2. Many images have never been exhibited before or have rarely been seen. Join in and find out about special price offers and the beautiful signed books by Gered and Guido.
Goodbye to soul legend Bobby Womack. Here’s a couple of his most famous portraits taken in 1981 by the one and only Norman Seeff.
Fever is getting higher and higher for the countdown to the first live performances by Kate Bush in 35 years. The 22 concerts at London’s Eventim Apollo sold out within 15 minutes! Wall Of Sound Gallery celebrates this unique artist with a very special show of photographs by Gered Mankowitz and Guido Harari. Mankowitz, whose iconic Hendrix photographs we exhibited in 2012, worked with Kate right at the beginning of her career between 1978 and 1979. Gered’s images are big time favorites among KB fans since they appeared on the Kick Inside and Lionheart album covers. Guido Harari did collaborate with Kate between 1982 and 1993, shooting her press & promo photos for the Hounds Of Love, The Sensual World and Red Shoes albums. He also photographed extensively on the set of her film The Line, The Cross & The Curve. Several of these images are being exhibited for the very first time. The show will run from June 14 to September 7.
It’s been already 10 years since Ray Charles passed away! We remember “The Genius” with one of his most iconic photographs, taken by Norman Seeff. This image fittingly dons the cover of Charles’ very last album Genius Loves Company and is available as a signed/numbered fine art edition.
On May 29th, 1997, the world lost one of its brightest and most promising music stars, Jeff Buckley. Wall Of Sound Gallery will celebrate his unique talent on the 20th anniversary of his legendary Grace album with an awesome selection of images (some of which never shown before) by Merri Cyr, the only photographer who had total access to Buckley since day one. Merri shot several of Buckley’s historic record covers, including Live at Sin-é, Grace and Sketches for my Swetheart The Drunk. The show is pencilled in for September 14 and will be accompanied by a beautiful catalogue. We’ll keep you posted soon, but you can already enquire re prints availablity.
Happiest B-Day to Peter Gabriel! We celebrate with this incredible photograph by Guido Harari. It was taken in 1983 in Sanremo as Peter was special guesting with Shock The Monkey at the Sanremo Song Festival. He later used this and other images from the same shoot for his 1984 tour program and for the remastered edition of his 4 album. Other Peter Gabriel’s images by Guido have also been featured in the So 25th Anniversay box set and on the Live in Athens 1987 DVD cover.
Goodbye Storm Thorgerson, the Eye of Rock! “The best album designer in the world” just passed away. Best known for his lifelong collaboration with Pink Floyd, Storm conceived and designed timeless icons such as the prism for the Dark Side of the Moon album (1973), the inflatable pig over Battersea power station for Animals (1977), the 700 hospital beds on a beach for A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), He’s also remembered for a virtually endless series of unforgettable images, also with his partner Aubrey Powell at Hipgnosis, for Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Nice, Paul McCartney, 10cc, Black Sabbath, the Cranberries and Muse. Read about Storm here in The Guardian.
While in Piedmont for the opening of his newest sound installation at the Galleria Grande of Venaria Reale, Brian Eno took time to visit our gallery in Alba. In the nearby town of Treiso Eno also celebrated his ten year long collaboration with our historic partner, wine-maker Giorgio Pelissero. Giorgio also produces a much appreciated wine called “Long Now” which gets its name from the eponymous American foundation also co-founded by Eno.
