Sydney 10th Anniversary show!

Blender Gallery
& The Just Shoot Lomography Shop
16 Elizabeth Street
Paddington NSW 2021
ph: +61 2 9380 7080
email: info@blender.com.au
www.blender.com.au
www.myspace.com/justshootlomoshopsydney

For the first time in Australia, a collection of iconic images from UK based

gallery Rockarchive.com will be on show this month in Sydney.
 
Blender Gallery, delighted to present Rockarchive's 10th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition in Sydney, featuring more than 50 of the UK based archives' most evocative images from the 1960s to 2007.

 

A decade ago and after 30 years as a rock photographer, Jill Furmanovsky was looking through her vast archive of images. Images of the great and the good of the music industry.
Images that captured those decisive moments in the history of rock and roll.
Images as visceral as the punk rock days they reflected and she felt that it was such a shame that so little of her work could be seen or owned by the people who would appreciate it most; The Fans.
 
And So Rockarchive was born from Jill's vision to make her work and that of her esteemed colleagues more accessible to the public. It coincided with the birth of that other great engine of public access: The internet.

 

Jill began a website called rockarchive.com at the end of 1998. She put up 30 of her classic images from her 30 years as a rock photographer and decided to print them in an edition of 30 darkroom prints. Edition 30/30/30 was born and became the founding edition for Rockarchive.

 

A decade on and Rockarchive specializes in publishing rare, iconic, unseen and unpublished moments from Rock and Roll history as limited edition, hand signed, fine art prints from a roster of the worlds greatest music photographers. Currently publishing the work of 50 photographers which included 500 images, the collective continues to grow.

 

The stable includes Mick Rock (David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop), Bob Gruen (Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones), Kate Simon (Debbie Harry, Madonna), David Corio (U2, Bob Marley, Sex Pistols), Barrie Wentzell (Marc Bolan, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Elton John), Sheila Rock (The Clash, Blondie, Siouxsie Sioux), Storm Thorgerson (Pink Floyd, Muse, Mars Volta), Gered Mankowitz (Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix), Kevin Cummins (Joy Division, Smiths, Stone Roses), Ray Stevenson (Sex Pistols, punk, Bowie, Hendrix), Kevin Westenberg (U2, Coldplay, PJ Harvey) and of course Jill Furmanovsky herself (The Police, Pink Floyd, The Pretenders, Oasis, Razorlight) each contribute to Rockarchive's roster of iconic captured images.

And so to 2008. The Rockarchive 10th Anniversary has manifested itself as a world tour.

The exhibition kicked off in Dubai in September 2008. On the mark of the decade, mid October '08, the show pulled into Central London for a four week stint and a series of events across 3 London exhibition sites. Throughout 2009 the tour takes in Brighton, Sydney, Tokyo, Geneva, Prague and culminates in Autumn 09 in New York.

Over the last twelve months, Blender Gallery has begun specializing in Limited Edition Fine Art Music Photography.

Blender Gallery is the official Sydney representative of London's Rockarchive Gallery.

Many of Rockarchive's distinguished contributors were instrumental in shaping the iconic identities of rock music's greatest musicians. Whether capturing the spirit of a live show in the pit at a gig, collaborating directly with musicians to create an unforgettable record cover, or shooting timeless documentary images, our photographers and art-directors have worked and continue to work directly at the source.

 

Rockarchive follows in the footsteps of collectives like Magnum Photos. Its general philosophy is to accord recognition to the art of rock photography and to help maintain the rights of its practitioners. Rockarchive is dedicated to promoting less well-known work by high profile photographers, as well as the work of up and coming photographers.

 

"Look closely at the work we publish; read the captions, and you will suddenly find yourself there. That is the power of rock photography at its best."

 

'Rockarchive's 10th Anniversary Exhibition' An exhibition celebrating 10 years of rare, iconic, unseen and unpublished moments from Rock and Roll history from a roster of the world's greatest music photographers opens on Thursday March 19th 2009 from 6pm-8pm at Blender Gallery, 16 Elizabeth Street, Paddington.  

The exhibition will run until April 21st 2009.

 

Blender Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10am - 6pm.

 

For more information or for media and general enquiries please contact:

 
Tali Udovich
Director

Blender Gallery
& The Just Shoot Lomography Shop
16 Elizabeth Street
Paddington NSW 2021
ph: +61 2 9380 7080
email: info@blender.com.au
www.blender.com.au
www.myspace.com/justshootlomoshopsydney

 

Photo credits-

 

(top l-r)

Sex Pistols by Ray Stevenson

Jimi Hendrix by Ray Stevenson

The Beatles by Terry Spencer

 

(right t-b)

U2 by David Corio

The Rolling Stones by Bob Gruen

David Bowie by Geoff MacCormack

Iggy Pop by Stuart Nicholls

Paul Weller and Pete Townshend by Janette Beckman

Oasis by Jill Furmanovsky

Debbie Harry by Kate Simon