As February is Black History Month, the annual celebration of the lives, work and influence of Black Americans to U.S. history, culture and more specifically to the world of music, we are very excited to present “Move On Up!”, a new virtual exhibition that features a wide and varied selection of 80 historic photos (many presented here for the first time) to honor this special month.

“Move On Up!” covers over 60 years of Black music, featuring some of the giants of Blues, Folk, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Rock, Pop and Rap, portrayed (somephotographed in different eras) by a unique group of photographers from various generations.

February 18, 2020 marks the 80 years of Fabrizio De André.  On the same days, the film directed by Walter Veltroni FABRIZIO DE ANDRÉ & PFM. IL CONCERTO RITROVATO with the video footage of the Genoa date of the famous 1979 tour, presented for the first time, to the general public.

To date, the only visual evidence of that historic tour was represented by the photographs of  Guido Harari, collected in 2008 in the volume “Evaporati in una nuvola rock”, edited by Guido with Franz Di Cioccio and published by Chiarelettere. Guido is among those interviewed by Veltroni in the film to recount his experience following that tour.

A large selection of these photographs is part of the flash exhibition that you can view at our gallery. It is a pocket exhibition as we have decided to print many of those historical images even in the , smallest format, 18x24cm, at a special price, all framed and therefore ready-to-wear.

On this occasion, you can also take advantage of a 20% discount on the Deluxe edition of only 350 copiesof the book by Guido Harari “Fabrizio De André. Sguardi randagi”. It has a red leatherette cover with hot impressions and is enclosed in a special slide box. The Deluxe is numbered and signed by Cristiano De André, Dori Ghezzi, Franz Di Cioccio and Guido Harari and contains an exclusive 24x30cm fine art print numbered and signed by Guido (available only with this book) and a poster.

Grand opening on June 11 at Museo Nazionale Rossini in Pesaro, of Guido Harari‘s museum exhibition Wall Of Sound, with over 50 photographs taken over a period of 45 years, mostly unseen or never exhibited before. The show has been produced by Solares Fondazione delle Arti and will stay open until September 8. There will be portraits and concert photographs of such artists as David Bowie, Lou Reed, Frank Zappa, Kate Bush, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd.

Some famous, others unpublished: one hundred photographs tell the visual imagination of the second half of the twentieth century. They are the iconic shots of  Art Kane, the American photographer who with his gaze has reinvented and redefined the canons of the portrait, fashion photos, advertising collected in the retrospective Art Kane. Visionary,curated by Jonathan Kane and Guido Harari, which will be inaugurated Wednesday 12 June 2019 in the Chiostro di Santa Caterina a Formiello in Naples.

The exhibition is made up of several sections. The one dedicated to music collects photos taken by Kane of the greatest rock icons of the sixties and jazz of the fifties. Another section, equally rich, deals in a visionary way, also thanks to innovative combinations and stratifications of images, social and political themes, going through some of the issues that have deeply marked American society and beyond, such as the struggle for civil rights of African-Americans and American Indians, religious fundamentalism, the Vietnam war, the nuclear nightmare of Hiroshima, the first steps of environmental awareness and a criticism of consumerism. Finally, a section is dedicated to the story of the changes in American society, through customs, fashion, advertising and eroticism.

In each shot, in each of the worlds told by Kane, the strength and originality of his gaze emerges, which earned him the most prestigious photographic awards and the covers of the major magazines in the world. Because, as he himself claimed “My aim is to show the invisible part of people.”

But Kane is universally known for “Harlem 1958”, the shot of 12 August 1958 in which he immortalized 57 jazz legends gathered in Harlem, on the sidewalk in front of number 17 on East 126th Street, creating the most significant image in the history of jazz. With this photo, Kane won the gold medal of the New York Art Directors Club. His power, in addition to generations of photographers who still draw inspiration from it in an infinite game of quotes, was the subject of Jean Bach’s documentary in 1994 A Great Day in Harlem, (nominated for an Oscar) and, more recently, Spielberg’s film, The Terminal with Tom Hanks. A few months ago the publication of the volume Art Kane. Harlem 1958 – The 60th Anniversary Edition, edited by Jonathan Kane and Guido Harari, edited by Wall Of Sound Editions.

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.

Saturday June 27th, 12 noon, Guido Harari will be glad to meet you at the Ravello Festival for the opening of his new exhibition SONICA in the Lower Cloister of the beautiful Villa Rufolo. The show, which is produced by Wall Of Sound Gallery, presents 35 big portraits, many never exhibited before, and a very eclectic selection of artists very much in the tradition that has made this prestigious festival famous. On show Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, B.B. King, Ute Lemper, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Caetano Veloso, Jan Garbarek, Bob Marley, David Crosby, Pino Daniele, Giorgio Gaber, Fabrizio De André, Francesco De Gregori, Paolo Conte, Vinicio Capossela, Nicola Piovani, Ennio Morricone, Michael Nyman, Noa, Luciano Pavarotti, Riccardo Muti, Pierre Boulez, Uto Ughi, Keith Jarrett, Hannibal Peterson. The exhibition will run till October 31st. The catalogue, which is published by Wall Of Sound Gallery, will be available exclusively at the Villa Rufolo bookshop and at our gallery. You may order you copy signed by Guido emailing us at info@wallofsoundgallery.com. 

To tie in with the 20th anniversary of Mia Martini‘s passing, we are delighted to celebrate one of the greatest icons of Italian music with the historic photographs of Mauro Balletti, Mimmo Dabbrescia, Guido Harari, Cesare Monti and Archivio Mia Martini. The exhibition, aptly named “Mia Martini. L’ultima occasione per vivere (Last chance to live)“, showcases images that have never been exhibited before, but have been featured in many cases on Mia’s most important album covers. On Sat. May 9th, from 4pm onwards, we’ll have the opening of the show and a booksigning of Mia Martini. L’ultima occasione per vivere, edited by Menico Caroli and Guido Harari, published by TEA. All photographers (except Cesare Monti who passed away a few months ago) will attend the opening along with Mia’s father Giuseppe Berté. It will be a truly unique opportunity to get to meet them and share memories and passions with them. The opening will continue from 9pm to 11pm as part of the “Notte bianca delle Librerie” in Alba.

The exhibition will run till June 14th. For its whole duration the photographs on show will be available as signed and numbered fine art editions at a specially discounted price, including one image not featured in the show by every photographer. These extra images will be made available as 8x10in fine art prints, each in a special edition of just 10. For more infos you may click here.  

David Crosby turns 73 today! When we launched Guido Harari‘s “Classic Editions”, we kicked off exactly with the Croz. Guido originally photographed him in 1989 for Rockstar magazine. Crosby was so over the moon with the shoot that a few years later he picked one of the photos for his Thousand Roads album cover. Two years ago Crosby accepted to sign his “Classic Edition“ edition of only 15 prints worldwide in Milan, at Teatro Smeraldo. Graham Nash of course gave his personal approval and supervision. The Crosby/Harari “Classic Edition”, size 36x60cm, printed on Hahnemuhle Museum Etching paper, can be ordered emailing us at info@wallofsoundgallery.com.