Amy Winehouse, Mick Jagger, Mickey Rourke… if you want to see the heroes of rock ’n’ roll and the silver screen up close, you need the right name. Bryan Adams, for example (yes, THAT Bryan Adams).
Not only is the man a great musician, but a great photographer too, and there’s nothing quite as useful as personal fame when it comes to recording the intimate lives of the stars – a subject which has always fascinated the masses. What better way to capture images of publicity-shy superheroes than to be a participant as well as a photographer? Bryan Adams is by no means the first musician to experiment with the visual arts: Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Bryan Ferry are among those who did likewise.
Talking about the beginnings of his passion for photography, Adams explains that his inspiration, in the mid-Seventies, were concert photos of the Beach Boys, a friend in the bathroom, his mother, his piano – “just casual things” that were all around him. Later, the things around him became celebrities such as Amy Winehouse, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Mickey Rourke and Victoria Beckham. Adams was even chosen in 2002 to photograph Queen Elizabeth II.
To Adams, it is important not to fall into a routine. “I believe that if you do the same thing every day again and again, you get tired of it. If the scenery changes now and again it’s good for everything you do – you see things in a fresh light.” Some 150 photographs are on display in the exhibition titled ‘Bryan Adams – Exposed’, at the NRW-Forum in Dusseldorf from 2 February 2013.
| Further Information Further information regarding the Bryan Adams – Exposed exhibition at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf can be found at www.nrw-forum.de. Text: Jan Baedeker |
from classicdriver.com
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