I know this isn’t a Dallas show, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway. If, by chance, you are in Los Angeles tonight, you might want to attend this show:
Greg Watermann is a well-known Hollywood music photographer. He’s been doing concert and band photography for a long time now, and he has some pretty good images. You can see some of his work here:
You’ll have to sift through a handful of really cheesy images, and a few bad ones (why does he leave a few of those duds on his site?!?), but for the most part, his website will blow you away. He works mostly with hard rock and metal-ish bands, so expect to see plenty of dark and muted images.
Being a big Nirvana fan, I’d love to see his show just for the “unpublished” Nirvana images promised. I wish I could’ve shot them, but I never did. I started shooting shows around 1995 or 1996, and they were just ultra-small, local bands. In 1997, I upgraded to regional and national acts, but Nirvana was long gone history by then.
Imagine getting to shoot that Nirvana show at Trees in 1991 or so, whenever it was… the one where Kurt got in a fight with the club’s bouncer. That show must’ve been crazy to see live. But enough about me. Here are the details of Greg’s show:
Lucie Foundation Member Greg Watermann celebrates the opening of a new show entitled “I Photograph Rock Stars”.
Join A and I Photographic Lab on May 7th from 7pm-11pm for the opening reception of the Greg Watermann collection, “I Photograph Rock Stars.”The exhibit takes a walk through Watermann’s career, ranging from early portraits of Julia Roberts to more recent portraits of Ozzy. Unpublished and unseen treats will be unveiled for the first time, including the outtakes from Nirvana’s first magazine shoot for the cover of Spin Magazine and the debut of a new multi-media presentation documenting System Of A Down’s last concert with hundreds of live photos cut to music.
Exhibit books, prints and posters will be sold to benefit Nrani, a non-profit organization established in 2003 in Armenia to help provide adequate therapy for children up to eight years old with disabilities.
Greg Watermann is currently one of the top music photographers in the world. Over the years, his unlimited access at concerts has routinely involved him standing on-stage with of some of the biggest names in Rock n’ Roll. This perspective combined with Watermann’s “in the trenches” style gives photography and music fans alike a perspective of really being there and has earned him the rights to photograph such bands as System Of A Down, Linkin Park, Coldplay and Mudvayne.
Nrani is a non-profit, early intervention program established in 2003 in Armenia to help provide adequate therapy for children up to eight years old. The organization is taffed with a multidisciplinary team of physicians, psychologists, educators, and speech and physical therapists. These experienced professionals provide free therapeutic services to improve the development of cognitive, personal/social, motor and language skills. Nrani also provides counseling and education to help families cope and adapt to their child’s disability.
The event is generously sponsored in part by HP and Neenah Paper.
