Rolling Stones by Dezo + 20 Years of Pop Star Photos
September/29/2012 08:56 PM
(Pictured left: Rolling Stones by Dezo Hoffman)
September 29, 2012
Rock Star Photos by Dezo Hoffman
Available for purchase at RockPaperPhoto.com
Rolling Stones by Dezo + 20 Years of Pop Star Photos
via RockPaperPhoto.com:
Dezo's delights: 20 years of pop star photography now for sale
| In his 20 years as London's most prolific entertainment photographer, |
Dezo Hoffmann
compiled one of the most comprehensive archives of pop culture that the world has ever seen. Working out of a three-story warren of studios and darkrooms on Gerard and Wardour Streets, the Hungarian-born photographer and his stable of assistants fanned out through London's streets to capture local rock legends, visiting pop stars and sultry screen sirens. Their output: more than a million negatives and some of the greatest shots ever taken of the city's bustling cultural scene in the late 50s and 60s.
Now, thanks to our exclusive arrangement with the Dezo Hoffmann Archives, Rock Paper Photo is excited to offer for the first time a
collection
of this vastly entertaining work. Priced at only $135, these historic images are available for purchase as limited edition Archival Chromogenic prints. Each print is stamped with the official archive seal.
Among the gems is a stunning multi-year series of
early Stones photos
. Featured recently in
Rolling Stone
, this gallery includes quiet solo portraits and casual group shots of the band lounging in Hyde Park. The range of Dezo's material is vast – early live shots of
The Who
,
Frank Sinatra
mid-song in a studio session, a gorgeous
Brigitte Bardot
and a pixie-faced
Rod Stewart
downing a Heineken. And there are great novelty moments like
Jimi Hendrix
dressed as Santa Claus and a very young
Stevie Wonder
totally enjoying a live Stones' TV performance.
Arriving in London after World War II, Dezo joined the Record Mirror as staff photographer in 1955, beginning a long collaboration that produced the bulk of the archival material. But his early bio is no less astounding than his photography. Educated at Prague University where he majored in photo-journalism, Dezo won a trip to Berlin as an art prize - he met a dinner guest named Adolph Hitler who recently became Fuhrer. After college, 20th Century Fox hired Dezo as a newsreel cinema photographer. Based in Paris, he covered the Spanish Civil War, filming the first newsreel ever seen of that conflict. A staunch anti-Fascist, he fought in the war, which cost the life of his Spanish wife, and landed a steel plate in his head from an injury. Dezo was deported to an internment camp in France and later evacuated to Britain.
Perhaps Dezo's best known work is the product of his close 18-month association with
The Beatles
, which famously came to an abrupt end when
John Lennon
publicly dressed down Dezo on the set of "Hard Day's Night," peeved over an unflattering photo of the guitarist's mop top. Dezo went on shooting for the Record Mirror, while freelancing for the rest of Fleet Street and selling his work direct to fans.
The Beatles' label, Apple, has since purchased rights to every one of Dezo's Beatles images, so they are no longer in the Dezo Hoffmann Archives. But the rest? Well, one visitor compared a walk through the vault, stacked floor to ceiling with photography files, to "discovering a Pharoic tomb."
We say,
Explore away
.
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