{"id":42106,"date":"2014-04-01T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=42106"},"modified":"2014-03-31T23:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T06:27:35","slug":"bob-gruen-exhibit-at-pop-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/bob-gruen-exhibit-at-pop-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Gruen Exhibit at Pop Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 3rd through May 4th marks the Bob Gruen Exhibit at Pop Gallery in New York City. For more info, check out: http:\/\/www.popinternational.com\/<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

Bob Gruen
\nRock Seen
\nApril 3th \u2013 May 4th
\nPOP International Galleries Soho
\n473 West Broadway, NYC<\/p>\n

Press Release:<\/p>\n

Reception for the Artist Thursday, April 3rd 7-9pm<\/p>\n

Pop International Galleries will present a selection of photographs from legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen.\u00a0 The show will present nearly 100 photographs of rock greats including John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Debbie Harry, The Ramones and more. The show will also include original contact sheets that correspond to each of the featured photographs, demonstrating the selection process of pre-digital photography.\u00a0 In addition, the show will include a new collage of Rolling Stones photographs from the 1972 Madison Square Garden show of the \u201cExile on Main Street\u201d concert, a Teenage Bedroom installation and a new silkscreen series.
\nFor forty years, Bob Gruen has been documenting the rock scene, capturing now iconic images of The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin, New York Dolls, Blondie, The Ramones, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono among others and continues to work today with current acts Green Day and the Strypes. Bob Gruen says of his career, \u201cPhotography has led me to some great experiences and enduring relationships.\u00a0 Blurring the line between work and play, many of the people I met through my work have become friends; some are like family to me.\u201d\u00a0 Signed copies of Bob Gruen\u2019s 14th book ROCK SEEN (Abrams 2011), a monograph spanning his career, will be available at the gallery.
\nAccording to Jeff Jaffe, owner of POP International Galleries, \u201cBob Gruen is perhaps the most well known and respected photographer in rock and roll. POP International Galleries is a natural forum for showing his work given our great reputation for representing artists like Ringo Starr, Ronnie Wood and Bob Dylan. Gruen\u2019s photographs are the glue that connects the music scene with the fans, and POP provides the venue for fans and collectors to own a significant part of rock history. We are very proud to show the work of Bob Gruen!\u201d
\nBob Gruen\u2019s career began in 1965, when he shot his first concert photos at the Newport Folk Festival.\u00a0 \u201cI was still a kid and a big Bob Dylan fan.\u201d Bob Gruen recalls, \u201cI talked my way into getting a photo pass so I could be down front. That was when Dylan played electric guitar and claimed rock’n’roll was American folk music and got booed off stage for it. After that I began taking photos a lot.\u201d (Bob Gruen, Interview with Carlo McCormick, The New York Trash)
\nWhile shooting freelance work and photo stories for the underground rock magazine, \u201cRock Scene\u201d Bob photographed local New York City bands \u201con stage, off stage, at home, at parties, and during time off\u201d. \u201cMany photos I was taking then weren\u2019t used until years later; they weren\u2019t considered to be news at the times, but now they are \u2018history\u2019 \u201d Bob says of his early photographs which document the very beginnings of what would later become a monumental rock scene at the now infamous New York City clubs CBGB and Max\u2019s Kansas City where bands such as the Ramones and Blondie got their start.
\nMany of Bob Gruen\u2019s iconic photographs began with unassuming introductions that became the catalyst for honest and enduring friendships.\u00a0 A hurried introduction to Ike and Tina Turner outside a concert began a friendship that resulted in Gruen\u2019s first album cover, and later Gruen\u2019s first concert tour.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1972, Gruen met John Lennon and Yoko Ono at a benefit concert, and later dropped some prints at their nearby apartment.\u00a0 This simple gesture began a close friendship between Bob Gruen, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono.\u00a0 Throughout the 1970\u2019s Gruen worked as their personal photographer, documenting concerts and press conferences, as well as capturing serene moments between John and Yoko, and the first images of their son, Sean Lennon.\u00a0 In 1974, Gruen suggested photographing John Lennon on top of his New York apartment building, which would later become the hugely iconic image of John Lennon wearing the New York City T-Shirt.
\nGruen\u2019s photographs are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and have been shown in the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s 2009 exhibition, \u201cLooking at Music: Side 2\u201d and the Brooklyn Museum of Art\u2019s 2009 exhibition, \u201cWho Shot Rock & Roll\u201d.\u00a0 Bob Gruen lives and works in New York City.
\nFor RSVP information to opening night, please log on to\u00a0 http:\/\/www.popinternational.com\/<\/cite> <\/a>or e-mail\u00a0 BobGruenRSVP@popinternational.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 3rd through May 4th marks the Bob Gruen Exhibit at Pop Gallery in New York City. For more info, check out: http:\/\/www.popinternational.com\/ Bob Gruen Rock Seen April 3th \u2013 May 4th POP International Galleries Soho 473 West Broadway, NYC Press Release: Reception for the Artist Thursday, April 3rd 7-9pm Pop International Galleries will present […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4034],"tags":[13750],"class_list":["post-42106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-2","tag-bob-gruen-exhibit-at-pop-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/invite1.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42114,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42106\/revisions\/42114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}