Two Takes on Neil Young - Photographs by Joel Bernstein & Henry Diltz
One of the most exciting collections to come to Blender Gallery this year, music photographers Henry Diltz and Joel Bernstein will exhibit and sell limited edition prints of legendary musician Neil Young: Two Takes On Neil Young by Joel Bernstein & Henry Diltz from November 3rd and run until the 3rd of December 2011.
Many of these special photographs have not been available for public viewing until now.
"Joel Bernstein and Henry Diltz’s brilliant photographs of Neil Young will be remembered as the definitive collection" - Peter Blachley, Morrison Hotel Gallery, New York
Having been friends with Neil Young for many years, both Henry Diltz and Joel Bernstein have captured Neil Young in his most intimate moments as an artist and performer.
Both photographers are also musicians, which has given them special access and sensitivity to Neil's visual persona.
Although both rarely used flash and chose instead to work with available light, having photographed Neil Young and other subjects in an era when a naturalistic look was possible and popular, Joel’s photographs take on a more contemplative mood, and attempt to reveal something of the interior life of the subject, Henry is more interested in discovering and displaying the outward personality of each subject, often leading the viewer to be caught up in a more expressive moment.
Henry Diltz met Neil when he was in Buffalo Springfield. His first published photo was the iconic image he captured of the band in front of a rock club in Redondo Beach, California in 1966.
Since that time, Henry has visually chronicled Neil’s career over the past 40+ years.
Henry’s work has graced hundreds of album covers and has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone and Billboard. His photo of Tina Turner was the iconic image used to promote the Brooklyn Museum’s groundbreaking exhibit, “Who Shot Rock and Roll” in 2009, and his photo of The Doors was used as the poster for the 2010 release of the movie, When You’re Strange.
His unique artistic style has produced powerful photographic essays of Woodstock, The Monterey Pop Festival, The Doors, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix and scores of other legendary artists. Diltz is a principal in Artchives, LLC, and is the founding photographer of Morrison Hotel Gallery NYC.
“Henry really listens to music and really watches what’s happening around him so his photography is his expression” - Jackson Browne
Joel Bernstein is an acclaimed photographer whose work, spanning more than three decades, chronicles the inner lives and public moments of some of the most important singer-songwriters, performers and musicians of our time. They include Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, Laura Nyro, Tom Petty, Prince and many others.
Bernstein’s numerous album covers are commonly listed among the most influential in rock’s visual history. His first, at age 18, was Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, often cited in Best Album Covers Of All Time lists. His photographs were also chosen for the front covers of Neil’s Harvest, Time Fades Away, Unplugged and Greatest Hits albums. His work was featured in the album cover for Joni Mitchell’s Hejira, nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album Cover. Bernstein’s photos of Tom Petty for the “Refugee” single sleeve inspired the singer’s influential music video.
"His understanding of the songs, the instruments, the subject, and the people. There is soul and movement and most of all, music, in every one of Joel’s images. This is what it looked like, and this is what it felt like. These are truthful angels" - Cameron Crowe, Director