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Bob
Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected
photographers in rock and roll. From Muddy Waters
to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan
to Bob Marley; John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, he has
captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs
that have gained worldwide recognition.
Shortly
after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971, Bob became
John and Yoko's personal photographer and friend,
making photos of their working life as well as private
moments. In 1974 he created the iconic images of John
Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt and, standing
in front of the Statue of Liberty making the peace
sign - two of the most popular of Lennon's images.
Bob has worked with major rock acts such as Led Zeppelin,
The Who, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John, Aerosmith,
Kiss & Alice Cooper. In 1989, he documented the epic
trip to Russia of the ³Moscow Music Peace Festival²
featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi.
For many years Bob was the official photographer for
the New York New Music Seminar, covering dozens of
aspiring new bands in the course of a summer week.
As chief photographer for Rock Scene Magazine in the
'70s, Bob specialized in candid, behind the scenes
photo features. He toured extensively with the emerging
punk and new wave bands including the New York Dolls,
Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group and
Blondie. This seminal body of work reflects a profound
commitment and long-standing personal friendship with
the artists. His wealth of personal experiences and
uncanny memory provide the most illuminating and comprehensive
histories of rock youth culture.
In June, 2004, in London, Bob was presented with MOJO
Magazine's prestigious Honours List Award for Classic
Image. FAAP Museu de Arte Brasileira in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, held an extensive exhibition of the work of
Bob Gruen in 2007. Titled "ROCKERS" the large multi-media
installation featured more than 270 photos from Gruen's
catalogue, arranged in nine areas with six different
background soundtracks. More than 40,000 visitors
came to see it. A 221 page catalog book of the exhibition,
titled "ROCKERS", has been published in Portuguese
and English by Cosac & Naify Edições Ltda of Sao Paulo.
The ³ROCKERS² exhibition is now at the Morrision Hotel
Gallery in New York City on the Bowery in the space
that used to be the gallery at CBGB; the exhibition
will run through July 2008.
PHOTO EXHIBITS include:
Morrison Hotel Gallery, New York,NY, La Jolla, CA
and Tokyo, Japan A Gallery for Fine Photography, New
Orleans, LA Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The
Govinda Gallery, Washington, DC The Special Photographers
Gallery, London, UK Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
FAAP Museu de Arte Brasileira in Sao Paulo, Brazil
V!P Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands Auditorio Nacional,
Mexico City
His ³Sid Vicious with Hot Dog² photo was acquired
in 1999 by The National Portrait Gallery, London,
for their permanent collection.
Bob
receives numerous invitations to give LECTURE/SLIDE
SHOWS, he has presented at:
The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC New York
University Savannah College of Art and Design Hawaii
Pacific University Tokyo Communications College -
Japan The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Cleaveland
Eastman Kodak New York headquarters The City University
of New York International Society of Photographers
convention Las Vegas Museum of Science and Industry
- Chicago
BOOKS
by Bob Gruen
Bob's
latest book, ³John Lennon, the New York Years,² was
published in the fall of 2005. Publisher's Weekly
review stated, ³Š. Gruen is THE world's best rock
and roll photographerŠfrom the legendary shot of Lennon
on a rooftop clad in the now iconic New York t-shirt
to a heart-wrenching shot of a young Sean Lennon curled
up in Yoko's bed not long after John's murder, both
Lennon's and Gruen's geniuses are exhibited here.²
³The New York Dolls, Photographs by Bob Gruen² will
be published in Oct. 2008 by Harry Abrams Company.
³The Clash, Photographs by Bob Gruen² (Music Sales,
2004) ³Chaos, the Sex Pistols² (Music Sales, 1991)
³Sometime in New York City² with Yoko Ono (Genesis,
Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition, 1995) ³Crossfire
Hurricane, 25 Years of the Rolling Stones² (Genesis,
Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition, 1998, - sold out
in record time!)
More recently, Bob has photographed the New York Dolls
reunion, Jesse Malin, Green Day, Ryan Adams, Courtney
Love and other new popular acts.
³All Dolled Up,² a DVD documentary made by Bob Gruen
and Nadya Beck of their early '70s video footage of
the New York Dolls, was released in 2005.
Updates of his current work and events can be found
on his website, bobgruen.com
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