Loading...Exhibition Friday 8th July – Sunday 7th August 2011
Throughout their longstanding career, the Rolling Stones have maintained a reputation as both outstanding live performers and larger than life personalities. The imagery included in this groundbreaking collection covers all aspects of the band’s career including never before released images from the Stones’ first professional photo shoot, taken in 1963 by renowned British photographer Terry O’Neill. Portraits of Keith, Brian & Mick by iconic New York photographer Art Kane (1925-1995) will sit alongside live shots from the group’s first US Tour in 1964 by Gered Mankowitz. Michael Cooper’s psychedelic 1967 LP Cover for ‘Satanic Majesties Request’, striking Black & White backstage portraits by Neal Preston (1972) and later day official Stones’ tour photographs by Tony Mott (Aus), Denis O’Regan (UK) & Kevin Westenberg (UK) have also been included in this unique four week exhibition.
Many of the photographs included in this exhibition have only recently been released to the public and in some instances, Melbourne will be their first international showing. Terry O’Neill’s early images of the as yet unsigned group’s first professional photo shoot (1963) were only recently rediscovered in the photographer’s archives. O’Neill’s editor initially rejected these amazing images, as he deemed the band “too ugly” to publish. Also from the UK, photographer Michael Joseph’s lush medieval group portraits taken for the Stone’s ‘Beggars Banquet’ LP in 1968 languished in storage for forty years before going on show in London for the first time in late 2009.