Who Shot Rock & Roll, Brooklyn

Why is it that we’re always talking about someone getting shot when it comes to Brooklyn? This, however, is a completely different form of shooting. “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present” is the latest exhibition opened today at the Brooklyn Museum and running through to January 31, 2010.

It is a collection of 175 images, including album covers, snapshots, and onstage performances by over 100 photographers. The museum’s effort is to put photographers in the foreground and highlight the importance their photos have had in creating the phenomenon behind many rock and roll legends. Their claim is that photographers were “handmaidens to the rock-and-roll revolution, and their images communicate the social and cultural transformations that rock has fostered since the1950s.”

Anyone with a high school, or university, dorm room poster of his or her favorite musician can attest to the significance photographers have had in romanticizing and often eroticizing the artist.

Some argue that the spirit of rock and roll is perhaps best captured through videos, rather than motionless and silent imagery. We’ll let you be the judge.

For a full schedule see the museum’s website on www.brooklynmuseum.org.

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Photo above: Bob Dylan, by Barry Feinstein

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