Bob Gruen was there91裸聊视频攊n almost every sense of the word when it comes to rock 91裸聊视频榥91裸聊视频� roll.
From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, you can find Gruen91裸聊视频檚 photographs documenting some of the most important people91裸聊视频攁nd moments91裸聊视频攊n rock 91裸聊视频榥91裸聊视频� roll history.
91裸聊视频淚 get around,91裸聊视频� he said modestly.
91裸聊视频淚 learned photography from my mother. When I was very little, about four or five-years-old91裸聊视频攖oo big to go to sleep early but too little to run around the house91裸聊视频攕he took me into the darkroom. My mom was an attorney, photography was her hobby. She liked to develop and print her own pictures, so she taught me when I was very little. I really took to it.91裸聊视频�
Gruen was given his first camera when he was eight-years-old, a Brownie Hawkeye. It was a very simple box camera, but he said it became his life.
At 25-years-old, all Gruen needed was a push to really kick his career off91裸聊视频攓uite literally.
91裸聊视频淎 friend of mine suggested we go see Ike and Tina Turner. I brought my camera; I took some pictures. I got some really good pictures that night but one that was amazing. Tina was dancing while a strobe light was flashing and it captured five or six different images in the one photograph,91裸聊视频� said Gruen.
91裸聊视频淎 couple of days later I happened to go to another Ike and Tina show and I brought the pictures with me to show my friends. As we were walking out, one of my friends saw Ike Turner walking from one dressing room to another and pushed me in front of Ike and said, 91裸聊视频榮how Ike the pictures.91裸聊视频� He pushed me into the rest of my life.91裸聊视频�
The Turners liked the pictures and nine months later, it was Gruen91裸聊视频檚 photo on the front of their album. This opened a 91裸聊视频渨hole new world91裸聊视频� for Gruen.
91裸聊视频淎 few years after Ike and Tina, by that time I had taken pictures of Elton John, Larry Coryell, Jackie Lomax, and all kinds of people. I was included in the first book of rock 91裸聊视频榥91裸聊视频� roll photography called The Photography of Rock,91裸聊视频� he said.
91裸聊视频淭he writer who was doing the biographies of the photographers in the book was doing an interview with John (Lennon) and Yoko (Ono) and he asked me to come along and take pictures for them.91裸聊视频�
This was the beginning of a fruitful friendship between the three, with Gruen taking several iconic photos of the duo, including the photos in the album art for Sometime in New York City.
Gruen is still in contact with Yoko to this day.
Bob Gruen was there, but now, he91裸聊视频檚 here.
Gruen is in Kelowna for the next few days in support of his exhibit which is being shown at the Kelowna Art Lover91裸聊视频檚 Gallery, which is offering rock lovers the chance to view91裸聊视频攐r buy91裸聊视频攁 piece of rock 91裸聊视频榥91裸聊视频� roll history.
91裸聊视频淭his is not just a really fun exhibit to see, but everything here is for sale,91裸聊视频� said Gruen. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 a great investment because art like this is guaranteed to go up in value. It91裸聊视频檚 art that you can live with. It91裸聊视频檚 not a certificate that you put in a box and hope nobody runs off with, but something you like and put on your wall and see every day.91裸聊视频�
Gruen91裸聊视频檚 exhibit will be on display at the gallery until Aug. 14.
michael.rodriguez@kelownacapnews.com
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