“I was so lucky that Andrew Loog Oldham decided to give me the chance to work with the Stones in 1965. The mid-60s period was the peak of the band’s original success and I was there to share a great deal of it with them. My association with the band consolidated my career and I will be forever grateful” – Gered Mankowitz
In 2016, veteran British music photographer Gered Mankowitz will revisit his legendary Rolling Stones archive for a new London exhibition, produced using our ChromaLuxe Fine Art Printing service, accompanied by a signed limited edition book, Off The Hook: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz. The exhibition of the best of Gered’s Stones’ photography from 1965-67 at London’s Snap Galleries will coincide with Exhibitionism, the international exhibition on the Rolling Stones opening at the Saatchi Gallery, which will also include a selection of Gered’s iconic images.
Opening on 1st April, Off The Hook: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz presents the very best of Gered’s Rolling Stones archive. The Snap Galleries exhibition will feature some of Gered’s most iconic Stones’ photographs, as well as images that have not previously been exhibited. Key pieces from the archive will be shown alongside works that have been specially reconfigured by the photographer. Gered has also reinterpreted his 1965 passport photographs of Mick, Keith, Brian, Bill and Charlie to produce a new artwork, The Cross, a highly colourised installation piece consisting of six images in cross formation.
The exhibition features well known images from all of Gered’s major sessions with the band, including key album cover sessions for Out of Our Heads, and the Between The Buttons, together with a selection of little known and unseen photographs, in dramatic large formats, some up to six feet high.
“When I went to America with them, IT was just the five of them, me and the roadie, there was nobody else. We were just a group of young men, no entourage, no security, no press, no publicist, no stylist, no make-up, no road crew, no lights, no set: nothing.”
Poker with Patti Labelle and The Bluebells, sharing toffee apples with Bo Diddley, tuning up in locker rooms full of jockstraps and cuddly toys, Mick trying on discarded giant tracksuits. Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz, is a fascinating, unguarded photo-essay of these defining days, presented as an ultra-large format signed hardback limited edition.
Off the Hook: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz
1 April – 28 May 2016
Snap Galleries
12 Piccadilly Arcade,
London,
SW1Y 6NH
Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz
Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz includes 96 large format pages. Much larger than a traditional coffee table volume, it is slim and elegant at the same time. The limited edition book is housed in a beautiful custom printed slipcase, which reproduces the front and back cover art. Backstage is a book on a spectacular scale: an ultra large format hardcover measuring 24” high x 18” wide (60x45cm) when closed. 750 individually signed and numbered copies are being offered to collectors worldwide. Retail price on publication £395.
Limited edition book, published by Ormond Yard Press.
Released June 2016.
About Gered Mankowitz:
Gered Mankowitz left school aged 15 and embarked upon what would become a highly successful photography career, meeting and shooting some of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century. Actor and family friend Peter Sellers encouraged Mankowitz to pursue photography. After cutting his teeth as an apprentice in the studios of some of London’s top photographers and taking on early commissions for fashion companies, Mankowitz set up his own studio in Masons’s Yard in the heart of St James’s, and was introduced to the Rolling Stones by their manager Andrew Loog Oldham. He met and toured with the Stones the beginning of their rise to super-stardom. Gered has photographed some of the most iconic, influential musicians of our time, from Marianne Faithfull, Jimi Hendrix, The Small Faces, Kate Bush and Elton John.