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Bob Gruen, an American photographer known for his iconic shots of legendary rock ‘n’ rollers, unveils his John Lennon “Peace & Freedom” Suite for collectors internationally.

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The quality and integrity of Bob’s photographic work has gained him the ultimate reputation as “Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Legendary Portrait Artist” and for this suite Gruen has worked with a production team that is well known for creating Pop Art with Warhol and Robert Indiana. New York’s Museum of Art [MoMA] installed a 20′ collage of Gruen’s work with Lennon as a central character and that honor was justified when Bob’s piece became a museum favorite. ROCK SEEN [Abrams Books 2011], spans Gruen’s remarkable 40 year career with striking portraits of music legends from Cab Calloway and Chuck Berry to The Boss and Madonna, from the Rolling Stones, Lennon, Dylan and Led Zeppelin to Bob Marley and Ozzy Osborne. What’s significant is not simply that he is the single-most important photographer of record to document the Punk, Proto-Punk and New Wave scenes of America and England, but that this seminal body of work reflects a profound commitment and long-standing personal friendship with the artists and personalities who shaped and defined the music of that remarkable era, and how these great artists have actually worked with Gruen to make him rock’s ultimate insider and incomparable documentary portrait artist www.depictionart.com.

In 1972, Gruen met John Lennon and Yoko Ono at a benefit concert, and later dropped some prints at their nearby apartment. This began a close friendship between Bob Gruen, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono. Throughout the 1970′s 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. “Peace & Freedom” is a special moment in both rock and cultural history, where music, message and Lennon are united. The portrait was originally conceived by Gruen to help aid his friend John Lennon in his battle against deportation for incidental marijuana use. “I felt John stood for Peace,” Gruen has said of the portrait’s inspiration, “and that The Statue of Liberty stood for Freedom. More and more, I see the two ideas – Peace and Freedom – as something the world needs, and these two icons, John and Liberty, say it better than words could.”

Responding to the flood of traffic to their inaugural exhibition, Not Fade Away Gallery has announced it will extend the Bob Bonis photography show, “The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66,” until May 17th. Photos are visible on the gallery’s just-launched interactive website, http://www.notfadeawaygallery.com/.

Not Fade Away Gallery, the new fine art photography gallery (12 East 20th Street, 2nd floor), opened with a bang on March 4th with a VIP reception hosted by Keith Richards’ daughters, Alexandra and Theodora, and attended by luminaries from the music, entertainment and art industries. Since then, the public has turned out in force to view the show’s 58 images (culled from an archive of 3500 photographs) taken by Bob Bonis, tour manager for both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones during their first tours of the U.S. in the 60s.

Documenting the critical point in the bands’ careers when they first came to America, the exhibition features images of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones that demonstrate the level of access and trust Bob Bonis (1932-1991) established with the young men who became the most significant rock musicians of the 20th century. Revealing a private, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, the photos show the boys in candid, intimate shots on stage, in rehearsal, in concert, backstage (tuning up, waiting to go on stage and clowning around), dressing and relaxing, on vacations or en route to shows or cities, getting haircuts, bowling, recording in the studio, at press events and just hanging around being themselves.

The provenance of the Bob Bonis archive, which came to light almost 45 years after the photographs were taken, makes for a fascinating story. According to Not Fade Away Gallery co-founder/director Larry Marion, an acknowledged expert in the field of music memorabilia, “In more than twenty years as a rock ‘archeologist,’ I’ve never come upon a discovery of this magnitude. This is likely the largest single trove of such important unknown photographs ever uncovered.”

For over forty years, the negatives and slides were safely stored away unknown to anyone but Bob Bonis’ family. Bob’s son Alex recently unearthed them and brought them–along with his father’s collection of memorabilia from his Tour Manager days–to Larry Marion for appraisal. In fact, the photos were at the bottom of a duffel bag of memorabilia–brought out almost as an afterthought. Now, Alex Bonis is one of the partners in Not Fade Away Gallery, which has begun to make these images available for exhibition and for sale as museum-quality fine art photographic prints (both black-and-white and color), in extremely limited editions, printed on era-appropriate paper, utilizing traditional photographic printing methods.

The Bob Bonis Archive is exclusively represented by the Not Fade Away Gallery. (http://www.notfadeawaygallery.com/)

“The British Are Coming: The Beatles and The Rolling Stones 1964-66″
Not Fade Away Gallery, 12 East 20th Street, 2nd floor (at Broadway)
March 4th-May 17th

All photographs by Bob Bonis, copyright 2009 by 2269 Productions, Inc.

Source: Not Fade Away Gallery