Photo Photography

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  • Lynn Goldsmith

    Lynn Goldsmith

    Lynn Goldsmith was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her mom was an interior designer and her dad was an engineer. Her older sister, Ellen Nieves, is a painter living in upstate New York city. Goldsmith stayed in Detroit until her senior high school when she relocated to Florida. She graduated from Miami Beach Senior high school then went to the University of Michigan where she finished in only three years with a double degree in English and Psychology. She was magna cum laude. She was the youngest female director ever before accepted into the Director’s Guild of America as a director. She has many awards for her photography from the Lucien Clergue to The World Press award.

    Though she has actually had numerous occupations: co-manager of Grand Funk Railway, Island Record’s recording artist Will Powers, etc she is most commonly known for her pictures of rock-and-roll most significant icons. It’s been stated that tale of rock lives in Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs. She narrated Bruce Springsteen’s passage to magnificence, the Rolling Stones’ fabulous arena trips, Michael Jackson’s spectacular ascent, and the brooding force of Bob Marley. Cultural heroes like Bob Dylan and Patti Smith became regular subjects for her lens, as she joined up with the community of artists whose tracks defined our era.

    The wide range of Lynn’s talents, skills and achievements are products of a belief she
    holds constant: Creativity is based on breaking limiting thought patterns

  • Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz

    Annie Leibovitz was born on October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut. While studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, she took night classes in photography, and in 1970, she began doing work for Rolling Stone magazine. She became Rolling Stone’s chief photographer in 1973. By the time she left the magazine, ten years later, she had shot 142 covers. In 1983, she joined the staff at Vanity Fair, and in 1998, she also began working for Vogue. She has worked with many arts organizations, including American Ballet Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and with Mikhail Baryshnikov. She is one of the worlds most influential portrait photographers.

    Her books include Annie Leibovitz: Photographs (1983), Photographs: Annie Leibovitz 1970–1990 (1991), Olympic Portraits (1996), Women (1999), American Music (2003), A Photographer’s Life: 1990–2005 (2006), and Annie Leibovitz at Work (2008).

  • Baron Wolman

    Baron Wolman

    Baron Wolman, being Rolling Stone’s chief photographer, was there to capture those magical moments of rock ‘n’ roll icons. He took backstage photos of Johnny Cash during his trying times, making him a witness to the icon’s troubles and woes. Living near where the Grateful Dead members lived, Wolman was there when the police busted the band for possession of illegal drugs. B.B. King welcomed Wolman into his family before they both became famous. Wolman took a lot of photos of Jimi Hendrix, both performance photos and portraits. Some of the other rock ‘n’ roll icons Wolman captured on film include Little Richard, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Jim Morrison and the Steve Miller Band. Wolman was there when rock icons were on the top of their game and he captured their character and music in his beautiful photos.

  • Jim Marshall

    Jim Marshall

    Celebrated music photographer Jim Marshall is acclaimed for his photography of music icons from the 1950s to the present day, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane. Based in San Francisco, Jim Marshall died in 2010, at the age of 74. He had extended access to numerous musicians through the 1960s and 1970s, including being the only photographer allowed backstage at The Beatles last concert, and chief photographer at Woodstock.

    While still in high school he purchased his first camera and began documenting musicians and artists in San Francisco. He was known for his forceful personality that became something of a celebrity of its own. Not having any children, he used to say “I have no kids, my photographs are my children”.

  • Robert John

    Robert John

    Robert John began his career as a professional photographer in the music industry in 1982 by shooting W.A.S.P., London, LA Guns and Hollywood Rose. When the latter became Guns N’ Roses, Robert worked with them and became their exclusive photographer when the band was signed to Geffen Records.

    Robert is one of the top international music photographers in the world. His clientèle is a Who’s Who of the rock n’ roll scene that spans the 1980s, 1990s and today, including Guns N’ Roses, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John, Backstreet Boys, Rolling Stones, The Cult, Aerosmith, Jane’s Addiction, Faith No More, Marilyn Manson, Motörhead, Sepultura and more, as well as many models and actors in entertainment such as William Shatner, Power Rangers, Christina Applegate, Leah Cevoli, and Susie Owens.

    Robert has a reputation for keying in to the artists’ brand image and capturing the emotion of rock n’ roll in his images and artwork. He developed his own techniques and style that uses light, shadows, grain and contrast, and has the remarkable knack of making any artist look great yet delivering high quality on tight deadline.

  • Todd Owyoung

    Todd Owyoung

    Todd Owyoung is a freelance photographer based in St. Louis specializing in live music photography and band portraits. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis magna cum laude with a BFA in Visual Communications. Throughout the year, on average, Owyoung photographs four to six bands a week and drinks tea everyday.

    His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, SPIN, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Alternative Press, The Wallstreet Journal, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice and Harper’s Bazaar. From sold out stadium shows to smoky basement gigs, compelling band portraits, or creative for a national campaign, if it rocks and rolls, Todd Owyoung can photograph it.