'Flashback'
photographs by Adam Ritchie
9th March - 24th March 2012
artisan welcomes Adam Ritchie to its walls with a retrospective exhibition of photographs of Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd taken in New York and London during the 1960's. The images are as raw as the music was and evoke the sense of excitement which surrounded these legendary earliest appearances of bands, who would go on to define an era. Some of the images have been shown at the Tate, the V&A, the Whitney and included in the Andy Warhol and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Collections.
Adam was working in New York in the mid 1960 as a free-lance photographer. A friend, Barbara Rubin, an underground film-maker, phoned one day in 1965, asking if he wanted to photograph an underground film being made on the Lower East Side with a new band in it. The band was called The Velvet Underground. He photographed the making of the film, "Venus in Furs" by Piero Heliczer, and was so excited by the music that he photographed the band at the Cafe Bizarre, at the Filmmakers' Cinémathèque and later when they played for the American Society of Clinical Psychiatrists at Delmonico's Hotel. They had invited Andy Warhol and Velvet Underground to their annual dinner in order to learn something of this new culture emerging around them and got a serious taste of culture shock.
Back in London in 1966, Adam's old friend John "Hoppy" Hopkins had started the UFO Club and new bands got an opportunity to play. It was here Adam met Pink Floyd. He photographed them several times at the UFO and at the Round House and got them on the cover of "Town" magazine.
Many years later all but a few of the images remain. Some of these will be shown at artisan for the very first time.
Original rare images of Velvet Underground and Pink Floyd from 1965/66. Signed and numbered prints on archive paper will be available.
'Flashback' 9th March - 24th March 2012 at artisan
Further Information/Attachments
The exhibition runs from 9th March to 24th March 2012, Wednesday to Saturday - 11am to 5pm.
Please see attached jpeg images. Subject to availability, all items will be available after the exhibition via artisan. Please contact Naomi Harrison at artisan tel: 020 8451 6315, mob: 0778 900 2052 or email: mail@artisan80.com
April will see a new exhibition of photographs of Kew Gardens by Tony Wallis
May opens with Marlene Cohens wonderful textiles
More details for these shows will follow shortly.