Overview
Direct from its United States tour, Who Shot Rock &
Roll opens at Auckland Art Gallery on 10 November
2012.
Who Shot Rock & Roll travels to New Zealand with
173 works from more than 100 photographers and many rare and
never-before-exhibited images. Photographers include Diane Arbus,
Roberta Bayley, Henry Diltz, Godlis, Dennis Hopper, David
LaChappelle, Annie Leibovitz, Linda McCartney and Albert
Watson.
Organised by the Brooklyn Museum and curated by photographic
historian and author Gail Buckland, Who Shot Rock &
Roll is the first museum exhibition to acknowledge
photographers for their collaborative and creative role in the
history of popular music.
'This exhibition is not a history of rock-n-roll, but of the men
and women who have photographed it and given the music its visual
identity,' says Buckland. 'From its earliest days, rock-n-roll was
captured in photographs that personalised and frequently eroticised
musicians. Photographers were handmaidens to the rock-n-roll
revolution, and their work communicates the social and cultural
transformations that rock helped bring about from the 1950s
onwards.'
'Through Who Shot Rock & Roll we continue to build
on our international programme of presenting high quality
exhibitions to Auckland,' says Gallery Director Chris Saines.
'Who Shot Rock & Roll is a vibrant and engaging
depiction of the revolutionary history of rock-n-roll. From Albert
Wertheimeir's photographs of a young Elvis Presley through to Allen
Tannenbaum's John and Yoko in Bed and the
frenzied energy of a moshpit captured by Charles Peterson, this
exhibition provides a wonderful opportunity for New Zealanders to
experience the influencial work of many talented international
photographers up close.'
The Auckland exhibition is the first time Who Shot
Rock & Roll will have travelled outside of the
United States. It is the second international exhibition presented
by Auckland Art Gallery since its reopening on 3 September
2011.
Ticket
information is available here.
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 -
Present is the exhibition of the book of the same title
authored by Gail Buckland. Who Shot Rock & Roll
is a touring exhibition organised by Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Who Shot Rock & Roll will run from 10 November 2012
- 3 March 2013. Entry to Auckland Art Gallery's other exhibitions,
including its permanent collection of New Zealand art, and to its
Learning Centre and E H McCormick Research Library, remains
free.
For media information please contact:
Tae Allison
Communications Coordinator
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
P +64 9 307 7706
M +64 27 291 9953
E tae.allison@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Images
Albert Watson, Jagger/Leopard, 1992
gelatin silver print, private collection
Max Vadukul, Amy Winehouse, Miami, May 18, 2007
gelatin silver print, courtesy of Max Vadukul
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