Rock On! - the Heckscher Museum of Art

Elliott Landy (American, b. 1942)
Elliott Landy’s earliest photographs document the anti-Vietnam War movement and the underground
music scene in New York City in the late 1960s. Between 1967 and 1969, Landy toured with Janis
Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and in 1969 he was an official photographer for the Woodstock
Festival. Landy’s photographs have appeared on the covers of magazines such as Rolling Stone, Life
and Saturday Evening Post, as well as on many classic album covers, including Bob Dylan’s Nashville
Skyline.
Gered Mankowitz (English, b. 1946)
By 1964 Gered Mankowitz had established himself as a talented portrait photographer of musicians
like Marianne Faithful and the vocal duo Chad and Jeremy. The following year he shot the cover for the
Rolling Stones album Out of Our Heads, released in the U.S. as December’s Children (and Everybody’s).
Mankowitz was the official photographer on the Stones American tour that year, helping establish their
bad boy image. A 1982 exhibit of Mankowitz’s work received record-breaking attendance at London’s
Photographer’s Gallery, resulting in the publication of the photography book Hit Parade.
Jonathan Mannion (American, b. 1970)
Jonathan Mannion’s love of urban culture and his desire to be a photographer drew him to New York, where
he studied with Richard Avedon in the 1990s. He began his professional career in 1996 with a shoot
for Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z’s album Reasonable Doubt, and since then he has become the quintessential
hip-hop photographer. Mannion also directs music videos and has photographed sports figures, such as
Kobe Bryant and Lance Armstrong, as well as many other celebrities, including Hugh Heffner.
Linda McCartney (American, 1941 - 1998)
While working as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda McCartney attended a promotional
party for the Rolling Stones, where she took photographs that propelled her career into rock ‘n’ roll
photography. During the 1960s, she photographed many musicians, including Eric Clapton for the
May 1968 cover of Rolling Stone, becoming the first woman to shoot a cover for the magazine. On
assignment in London to cover the “swinging sixties,” she met her future husband, the Beatle Paul
McCartney. Linda was a member of McCartney’s band Wings, and she became a vocal animal rights
activist and proponent of vegetarian lifestyles.
Tom Murray (English)
Tom Murray started his career as a newspaper photojournalist working in Africa as chief photographer
for The Zambia News & Times. When he returned to England, Murray worked with photographer Lord
Snowdon and was later hired by the Royal Family, becoming their youngest official portrait photo-grapher.
Murray’s photograph of The Beatles seen here was shot at their last official promotional shoot.
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