© Herbie Green
© Mitch Weiss
How do you define rock & roll when the performers and their fans are a changing mass of millions who span more than 50 years and live around the world?
The Griffin Museum of Photography by Digital Silver Imaging Gallery attempts to answer that question with an exhibit of 19 silver gelatin and color prints of musical legends and current artists.
Rock & Roll is featured in the new location of The Griffin Museum of Photography by Digital Silver Imaging, 4 Clarendon St., in Boston's South End, December 8 through January 28. An opening reception is December 8, 6-8 p.m.
The Beatles are said to be the world's most famous band and this show features rarely seen images shot during the early years. German photographer Astrid Kirchherr photographed the Beatles beginnings in Hamburg, when the band included her fiance, Stuart Sutcliffe, as a bass player.
Photographer Mike Mitchell, based in Washington DC, made international news this year when he uncovered a box of never-before-published images from the Beatles first U.S. concert, after the Ed Sullivan show. He chose Digital Silver Imaging to print them and sold the inaugural silver gelatin prints at Christie's this summer at a record-breaking auction.
Herbie Green is known for his close relationship and iconic images of The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and Led Zepplin. Eliott Landy has photographed rock legends including Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix.
Ron Pownall gained full access to bands starting with The Rolling Stones up to the E Street Band.
Boston has brought forth more than a few musical legends, as well as the photographers who captured them on film. B.C. Kagan, now based in New York, has intimate images of The Cars, Joe Jackson, Billy Idol, a teenage Bono and Sting with the early Police.
Ryan Mastro photographs music festivals across the U.S., including Coachella and Bonnaroo. He documents groups before, during, and after they are famous. The Black Keys, Radiohead, Amy Winehouse, B.B. King, and Phish are some of the artists he has photographed.
Melissa Mahoney, Kerry Brett, and Brian Babineau all make Boston their home base. Each photographer has developed relationships allowing for intimate and spontaneous images of Aerosmith, The Drop Kick Murphy's, and Kiss. Mitch Weiss is included with his close-up of Lady Gaga.
As many rock & roll legends mark their 50th anniversary of performing, it is a time of reflection, analysis, and projection. On January 28, the gallery will host a small panel of rock & roll experts discussing the people who made musical history and the photographers who documented the phenomenon.
The Griffin's satellite gallery is on the first floor of A Street Frames. It continues to be a collaboration between the Griffin Museum and Digital Silver Imaging of Belmont. The gallery is being called the Griffin Museum by Digital Silver Imaging and replaces the satellite gallery in Belmont.
The gallery is open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. -7 p.m.; and Saturday noon - 5 p.m.
The exhibition schedule for the Griffin Museum by Digital Silver Imaging parallels the museum's main exhibition calendar. Call 781-729-1158 for all inquiries on the new gallery space.
The Griffin Museum of Photography is open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 am - 5 pm; Friday
11 am - 4 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, noon - 4 pm. The Museum is closed on Monday.
Admission is $5 for adults; $2 for seniors. Members and children under 12 are admitted
free. Admission is free to all every Thursday. For more information, call 781-729-1158.
Digital Silver Imaging (DSI) was founded in 2008 as a dedicated black-and-white photolab.
DSI offers a unique printing process that provides beautiful fiber-based and resin-coated
black-and- white silver gelatin prints directly from digital files. Through a full suite
of printing and finishing services, DSI creates museum quality, continuous tone images,
uniting the advances of the digital world with the art and archival properties of true
black-and-white printing. For more on Digital Silver Imaging visit www.digitalsilverimaging.com or call
617-489-0035.(Map)
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