Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present

by Gail Buckland

Book Overview

More than 200 spectacular, frenzied and authentic photographs from 1955 to the present catch and define the energy and intoxication of rock 'n' roll. The collection captures rock's message of freedom and personal reinvention to examine the effect of photography on the musicians, fans and culture. Many of the image collected here are now iconic - a young Elvis in 1956, tender and vulnerable, John Lennon in New York and the famous Jimi Hendrix portrait...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307270165
• ISBN13: 9780307270160
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.7" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

clue to track

the good thing it's that you can see diferent photograph who meybe you dont know and want to follow his work.

Informative, detailed coffee table book

Great coffee table book, with some depth behind it. Wonderful photographs from many of the great rock photographers of that era, capturing some incredibly memorable moments. The photos are a wonderful mix of black and white, candid, posed, and stage shots. The essays that accompany the photographs in the book as interesting and important as the photographs themselves, all are matched well with their accompanying picture. Wonderful book for anyone who loves music, photography, or the culture of that era.

Rock, Stock, and Barrel

What do Grace Jones, Kurt Cobain, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Jay-Z, Mick Jagger, Blondie, The Ramones, Jerry Garcia, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Mercury, Madonna, James Brown, The White Stripes, and virtually every other major rock or pop musician have in common, besides, of course, being famous rock stars? They've all been shot (with cameras, that is) and have had their countenances collected into a compendium of some of the most striking images of pop culture icons from the modern era, //Who Shot Rock & Roll// by Gail Buckland. Cross-genre breadth of all sorts of rocking musicians, from blues to hip-hop to pop to heavy metal and experimental, //Who Shot Rock & Roll// offers up the most famous, the most talented, and the most emotional of our musical celebrities in telling images and poses. Both candid and posed, color and black and white, the variety of the photographs and the stories behind them varies just as much as the music made by the subjects of them. There is literally something, or someone, for everyone within Buckland's edition/addition of/to pop culture history. All tastes are accounted for.

it's not the show

Having been to the show in Brooklyn, I know that no book could possibly do these photographs justice. I needed this book because it is rock and roll. It lets us get a little closer to the artists that make our lives all the more vibrant. Also, from a photographers' point of view, the theme allows amateurs like me to see a vast array of styles within a common subject. The show was amazing, and I pity anyone who hasn't gone to see the actual photo prints mounted on the walls. This book is a best effort to bring the show home.

LOVE this book, LOVE this author, LOVE ROCK AND ROLL

This book is beautiful. From the quirky photo of Tina Turner on the cover, to each beautifully composed story Gail tells about her selected photographers, and favorite photographs- some which have defined how we view Rock and Roll (and when I say view I mean VIEW, not how we hear Rock and Roll, but which images, and how these images define what Rock and Roll means to each and every one of us.) I suggest anyone who is a fan of photography and Rock and Roll should pick up a copy, and ANYONE who just enjoys Rock and Roll in general, should flip through the book, nonetheless buy it, to get a good sound, visually enticing education in ROCK AND ROLL!