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Since kindergarten comics, everyone looks at the pictures — in magazines, encyclopedias, movies.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF ROCK
Abby Hirsch, Editor
(Bobbs-Merrill)
Since kindergarten comics, everyone looks at the pictures — in magazines, encyclopedias, movies. There have been books of photographs but always accompanied by an excuse, like song lyrics or poetry and always thematically arranged. Well, this book�s reason is selfexplanatory so the small print serves only as additional insight, like bringing a subject into sharper focus.
A plethora of books expounding on rock have been published, mostly critical anthologies. Now the graphics from some of these stories, plus posters and portfolios, are unveiled under one cover (a Pete Townshend pose). The glamorization of rock criticism is extended. Long ignored, pushed around by guards at concerts and generally taking second bill to writers, these rock reporters are in the limelight here. The reader(?) not only has 238 stars to gaze upon, but a shot and quick biography of the nine famous, professional rock photographers who collected their fave pictures with personal comments on them.