Morrison Hotel Gallery in partnership with music and model administration firm Iconoclast, and help from WhistlePig Whiskey, will exhibit a set of just lately unearthed colour pictures taken in 1971 by legendary photographer Ernst Haas of the enduring rock group The Band at their greatest.
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This particular exhibition of The Band shall be displayed in each the LA and NY galleries with a grand opening night time February twenty third from 7-9pm at Morrison Hotel Gallery Sunset Marquis positioned at 1200 Alta Loma Road in West Hollywood, and from 6-8pm at Morrison Hotel Gallery positioned at 116 Prince Street in New York City.
As a part of Iconoclast’s dedication to preserving and proliferating nice artistic endeavors, an in depth forensic examine of The Band’s archives occurred, revealing 502 colour pictures, 495 of which haven’t been since 1972. The number of 25 pictures to be displayed are taken from this historic discovery.
The pictures are taken from the Band’s spellbinding sequence of performances on the Academy of Music in New York City from December 28-31, 1971. These performances captured the group on the peak of their energy and have become the muse for the Gold-certified dwell album, Rock of Ages: The Band in Concert. The Band exhibit options suave, in-the-moment captures of your complete group, together with some footage of a shades-sporting Bob Dylan. The Los Angeles gallery may have the exhibition on view till March 7, and New York will stay on view till March 9.
Ernst Haas (1921-1986) is among the most vital photographers of the twentieth century and acknowledged as a pioneer in colour images. Haas was the primary individual to publish a colour picture essay for LIFE in 1953 on Returning Prisoners of War. His work additionally appeared in Vogue, and he was the topic of the primary single-artist exhibition of colour images at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
His guide, The Creation (1971), was one of the profitable images books ever, promoting 350,000 copies. These one-of-a-kind colour pictures are the one pictures of rock musicians ever taken by Haas.
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