"Funny" Jimi! "Energetic" Kate! "Rude" Oasis! Secret stories behind the greatest rock 'n' roll prints
No home is complete without an iconic rock n roll print on the wall. And no-one has produced quite so many iconic rock ‘n’ roll images as Gered Mankowitz.
You’ll know his photos from your mind’s eye; when you picture certain musicians you’ll likely recall the shots he took, such is their timeless power. The Jimi Hendix shot. The Rolling Stones shot. The Kate Bush shot.
“The key to my work is to try and create an image that the artist can live with, that works for them, that promotes them, that is true to them,” he tells the Standard.
Mankowitz has a new exhibition at the The Gibson Gallery within the newly opened Gibson Garage, the first contributing photographer in the space, where his best-loved shots will be on display for three months, with signed prints available to buy.
The still spritely and hard-working Mankowitz helped form the Sixties and tells us he was always destined to work in showbusiness. His father, Wolf, was a producer, novelist, playwright and very prominent in London’s 50s theatre scene.
Gered says he was first introduced to the idea of photography when Peter Sellers came over to their house for lunch one day: “Peter brought with him a full Hasselblad camera kit and a great big Polaroid camera. In those days the Polaroid was really rare: seeing a photo come to life in front of you was magical. Then Peter demonstrated the
