ROCKS OFF
PHOTO GALLERY AND SOURCES ON THE NET
Part 1: Professional
Photographers.
His
motto is IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL . . . And I Shot It. One of the best
known rock photographers in the world, Richard E. Aaron was on-stage and
backstage documenting the decade as it unfolded around some of the most
important events in music history
Fernando Aceves.
Check his brand new website http://www.fernandoaceves.com
launched July 2003
After a successful individual exhibit at
"Museo de Arte Moderno" in his born place, Mexico City, some of the
pics are available on the net at Galería. He then
participated along with Richard E. Aaron, Robert Altman, Elliott Landy,
Janet Macoska, Baron Wolman, and Michael Zagaris
in a great exhibition at Prestige Galleries in Plano, Texas in the “Rock 'n'
Roll Exposure! A Photographic Retrospective” then the 40x20 exhibition on tour
(Washington, D.C., NYC, NY and Mexico City, D.F.)
He is also in the permanent exhibition in London
at the Rock Archive Gallery
with greats like Gered Mankowitz, Jill Furmanovsky, Mick Rock and many more
Click to see two additional photos not available at the above-mentioned site: Keith (scanned from the original, courtesy of Fernando) and Group (scanned from the booklet) at Ex Templo de San Lázaro, La Candelaria in Mexico City, D.F.
Altamont Speedway, San Francisco Dec 6, 1969
Robert Altman Photos
“Photographer
Extraordinaire”
The
original wallpaper of our message
board was that, but we decided not to use it because it was very difficult
to read, so we change this great apocalyptic masterpiece to our set-lists
page!
Order originals, press HERE
Jim Crowley Bridges to Babylon Pictures
Henry Diltz has some great shot of the Stones, New Barbarians and many more, mainly from the LA and San Francisco scene in the 60s-70s, outstanding work with album covers for the Doors, Steppenwolf and many many more. We bought his CD with a bunch of great pics, many of them used as the message board header, thanks Henry!
In 1992 Jill Furmanovsky won the Observer's Jane Bown
portrait Award for this picture of Charlie Watts.
In
addition to be a dish Lynn is a multi-awarded portrait photographer whose work
has appeared on and between the covers of the most important rock magazines and
other genres, check out her landscapes and flowers.
Bob Gruen
Stunning! Just visit his site and his space at Great Modern Pictures and see it for yourself!
A great American photographer, with Rolling Stone for many years, check her Rolling Stone Covers HERE, we have used a bunch ph her great pix as one-day headers taken from the inside of Rolling Stone, thanks!! Also go to the RESTROOMS and find a cool pic.
Janet
Macoska, with more than 25 years of experience with a first class
reputation in rock, her memorable rock and roll images have appeared in Creem,
Circus, Hit Parader, Rolling Stone, 16, The New York Times, The London Times,
People, Entertainment Weekly, American Photo and in publications all over the
world.
Macoska's photographs have been exhibited in private and public galleries
around the world. The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame and Museum and The Akron Art Museum possess some of her classic
rock and roll photographs in their permanent collections. You've also seen her
work in Hard Rock Cafe's all across the planet.
She worked wih many acts like the New Barbarians, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton,
Queen, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, U2, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, Sting,
Tina Turner and many more. Janet’s photos have been used in official album
covers of David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, and The Kinks between others.
Photo by Gered Mankowitz
In addition to the photographs for the covers he made, he was on tour with the early Stones and has maybe the best reputation as Rock photographer... a real Pro!
Jim
Marshall simply a great photogger! Check his site out!! Since
beginning his career in the early 60's, Jim Marshall has photographed musicians
and events with intimacy, sensitivity and skill. We had a sample of his photos
but he moved his site and we lost it LOL!
A new website with a few but great images, check Ed
Perlstein’s MusicImages.com
Check soon the upcoming website for the great Neal Preston who did shot a lot of the greatest. He has maybe the best shots of Mick Jagger performing! His works with Led Zeppelin and David Bowie are Awesome!!!
Another great and real professional photographer!
This is Nicky as scanned from his second LP and personally authorized by Ethan Russell J
Ethan Russell's The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus
Baron Wolman with more than
35 years of experience is a well-known photographer with first class
reputation. He was a founder member of the Rolling Stone Magazine. His motto is
the best recommendation to success: ”Mixing pleasure with business since
1965”, he was Rolling
Stone first photographer!
He worked and had/have real close relations with artist like The Rolling Stones (from 1967 to 1978), Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Doors, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Who, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Jeff Beck, Eric Burdon, George Harrison, Steve Miller, B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Van Morrison, Johnny Winter, Ike and Tina Turner and many more.
Michael
Zagaris , The Z-Man, or Michael Zagaris for those who don't know, is the
legendary San Francisco based photographer who got his start shooting the
biggest rock acts of the late sixties, and is currently the official team
photographer for both the San Francisco 49'ers and the Oakland A's. Anyone even
remotely related to these two worlds has been immortalized by the Z-Man, from
Mick Jagger to Joe Montana, and everyone in between
Three professionals in one site!
Ross
Halfin, Robert Knight, and Richard Upper Together.
Check Rock and
Roll Gallery!
There’s more
POPFOTOS. (Closed at the moment) A
great place with the newest and the oldest. With more than eight million
celebrity pictures - from rock stars to royalty, film stars to sports
champions. The now famous Keith wearing Keith at the Beacon on March 6, 2001by Kevin
Mazur, was available there in excellent quality. A secure
order form and really fast delivery! A must!
You can see more than 250 great
pictures of the Rolling Stones in The Mirror Collection, go to the Stones
directly clicking here, and if it doesn't work enter the main page for pix.
Also Check Corbis, a lot of shots and an unique feature,
they sell digital pictures to use in your site or to print them or whatever you
want! Martha's TheRolling-Stone.com
place has cool links
Other sites only for
professional companies are London Features
International, Reuters, AP (Associated Press) and Wire Images but you need to be in the media
business and pay big bucks to download images.
Part 2: Fan Photographers.
STP Exposed A Field Guide To 1972 Tour Photographs
Thierry Joubaud Photos of Toronto April 26, 1998
More...many more to come!
FOR MORE PHOTOS SEE THE SPACE FOR LINKS TO FAN-MADE SITES
Special mention to Cindy's Stones History Tour