A gentle face you’ve seen before…
The headline says it, but here follows the detail from the
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BEATLES TO BOWIE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWCASE AT SAN FRANCISCO ART EXCHANGE, JULY 2010 – London?s recent National Portrait Gallery exhibition finds counterpart at San Francisco gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO ? From British invasion to glams and punks, San Francisco Art Exchange offers a visual journey, showcasing the revolution of the 60s and early 70s. Over 50 photographs will be on display from American and European photographers whose lenses were inside witnesses capturing the most iconic images from 1962-1974, along with photos from archives that have never before been seen or printed.
Last year London?s National Portrait Gallery opened a groundbreaking visual exploration into the musical evolution from the bookends, the Beatles and David Bowie.
?We want to highlight the influence on culture and fashion by musical avant-garde change agents,? said Theron Kabrich, San Francisco Art Exchange co-owner.
The journey starts with The Beatles in Hamburg and travels to their stroll across Abbey Road. Moving west, Bay Area bands and San Francisco?s blossoming counterculture are chronicled, before showing the shattering emergence of the Punks, and ending with the spectacle of oddity provided by Glam.
Beatles to Bowie will be showing at the San Francisco Art Exchange from Saturday, July 17 through mid August. Photos of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, Mothers of Invention, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Debbie Harry, David Bowie, and others will all be showing at the gallery starting July 17.
Featured photographers include Brian Duffy, one of the true giants of English photography who recently passed away, never before seen images by Terry O?Neill, Mick Rock, Joel Brodsky, Ethan Russell, Gered Mankowitz, Ian Dickson, Barry Feinstein, Paul Saltzman, Baron Wolman, Bob Seidemann, Jerrold Schatzberg, and Astrid Kirchherr.
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It seems this exhibition is stretching the brief of the original London version which concerned itself strictly with the 1960s. Not sure how they are intending to include images from the punk era though, as they claim the exhibition covers the period 1962 to 1974.
You can view a great gallery of some of the Bowie images likely to be on display
There’s no mention of the exhibition on the
You may or may not recognise the above painting of David Bowie from 1987 by Ronnie…and I have to say, though he has done some fine work over the years, this isn’t one of his best.
In fact, if you look at the picture long enough it looks like he found it hard to get out of the habit of painting one of his fellow band members!