One of my most blogged about places is the William D. Cannon Art Gallery. This Carlsbad treasure is moments from Steve's Mom's and always offers something of interest for us.
The current installation is Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Images of an Era... The Photography of Baron Wolman. While this exhibit is a bit before my time, or interest in music, it was cool to explore how the lens of one artist’s camera had such an impact on one of the most important eras in rock and roll history.
Founded in 1967, the revolutionary rock music publication Rolling Stone was a newsprint magazine that captured the era and defined it in print and pictures. Among those recruited for the magazine was Baron Wolman, who had been working as a freelance photographer for magazines like Life and Look. Wolman was hired as the first chief photographer for Rolling Stone. Interestingly, Wolman's professional photographic career began in West Berlin in the 1960s while stationed with U.S. Army military intelligence. This guy had an incredible life. Wow.
During his tenure at Rolling Stone, Wolman's lens captured the icons of 1960s rock and pop, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, the Who, and many others. Wolman’s unique access to his subjects, combined with his keen eye, gave his photographs an up-close-and-personal quality that was rare and unprecedented.
This exhibit is due to the fact that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame received its largest archival donation ever received when Baron Wolman passed away in November 2020. This treasure trove consists of more than 100,000 images taken by him. And here we are ogling many of his photos. I especially appreciate seeing the actual magazines the images were taken for.
Amassed over decades, the collection includes all of Wolman’s negatives, transparencies, photographic prints, correspondence and other documents, copies of his published books, and countless magazines with his images on the cover. Many of the collection’s images have never, or rarely, been seen by the public.
“Access is the key to making soulful,
intimate images. Without access,
a photographer is just another camera
in the photo pit.”
– Baron Wolman
This 30 second video shows the exhibit being set up and gives you a walk-thru of what it is like. If you can't make it to the Cannon by June 1st, when the exhibit concludes, the video is a cool peek.
How wonderful to spend a few minutes gleaning a glimpse of someone's greatness.
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