CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHS
HIStory tour, concert 8 June 1997 in Amsterdam.
Creator:
Lex van Rossen (1950-2007)
Object:
Photograph, gelatin silver print.
Country:
The Netherlands
Design period:
1997
Production period:
1997
Identifying marks:
Adhesive copyright sticker on verso
Style:
Portraits, concert photography, music
Condition:
In good condition.
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta photographic paper
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image W 16.7 x H 23.0 cm | paper W 17.7 x H 24.0 cm
Biography:
Lex van Rossen (Haarlem, January 5, 1950 - Amsterdam, February 24, 2007) was a Dutch pop photographer. Van Rossen, who was considered a pioneer in his field, was a freelance photographer. He photographed various nationally and internationally known artists for the newspapers NRC Handelsblad, De Telegraaf and Haarlems Dagblad. He also supplied photos to the GPD and the pop magazine OOR.
Already at the age of twelve he knew that he wanted to become a photographer, but in fulfilling his wish he had to compete with an environment in which such a thing was not common. He took, among other things, a correspondence course in photography. He took his first amateur photo of singer Trea Dobbs in an Amstelveen park, and his first professional photo of the pop group Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel in 1976. In the early 1970s, Van Rossen went through a difficult time when, as a photographer at Het Parool, he had to find that there were hardly any jobs available in photojournalism; he noticed that there was indeed a demand for photos of the pop circuit. However, his breakthrough came in the mid-1970s when he noticed that there was a living to be made in pop photography and he was able to add more and more photo reports of pop concerts to his repertoire. He photographed Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Queen, Debbie Harry, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, AC/DC, Michael Jackson and David Bowie, among others. He caused a sensation with a photo taken in 1987 of the Irish singer Bono of the pop group U2, kneeling and singing for the audience in the Rotterdam football stadium Stadion Feijenoord. This was also his favorite photo, he once said in an interview.
For his work he received the Pop Press Prize 2004, with the jury describing him as "the front soldier of pop journalism", a qualification with which he fully agreed. A retrospective of his work, called Rock Rossen Roll, was shown in 2005 in the Amsterdam multimedia center De Melkweg. Lex van Rossen died at the age of 57 from cancer. He was buried on March 2, 2007 at the Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats in Amsterdam.
HIStory tour, concert 8 June 1997 in Amsterdam.
Creator:
Lex van Rossen (1950-2007)
Object:
Photograph, gelatin silver print.
Country:
The Netherlands
Design period:
1997
Production period:
1997
Identifying marks:
Adhesive copyright sticker on verso
Style:
Portraits, concert photography, music
Condition:
In good condition.
Material:
Gelatin silver print on baryta photographic paper
Colour:
Black & White
Dimensions:
Image W 16.7 x H 23.0 cm | paper W 17.7 x H 24.0 cm
Biography:
Lex van Rossen (Haarlem, January 5, 1950 - Amsterdam, February 24, 2007) was a Dutch pop photographer. Van Rossen, who was considered a pioneer in his field, was a freelance photographer. He photographed various nationally and internationally known artists for the newspapers NRC Handelsblad, De Telegraaf and Haarlems Dagblad. He also supplied photos to the GPD and the pop magazine OOR.
Already at the age of twelve he knew that he wanted to become a photographer, but in fulfilling his wish he had to compete with an environment in which such a thing was not common. He took, among other things, a correspondence course in photography. He took his first amateur photo of singer Trea Dobbs in an Amstelveen park, and his first professional photo of the pop group Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel in 1976. In the early 1970s, Van Rossen went through a difficult time when, as a photographer at Het Parool, he had to find that there were hardly any jobs available in photojournalism; he noticed that there was indeed a demand for photos of the pop circuit. However, his breakthrough came in the mid-1970s when he noticed that there was a living to be made in pop photography and he was able to add more and more photo reports of pop concerts to his repertoire. He photographed Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Queen, Debbie Harry, Neil Young, Iggy Pop, AC/DC, Michael Jackson and David Bowie, among others. He caused a sensation with a photo taken in 1987 of the Irish singer Bono of the pop group U2, kneeling and singing for the audience in the Rotterdam football stadium Stadion Feijenoord. This was also his favorite photo, he once said in an interview.
For his work he received the Pop Press Prize 2004, with the jury describing him as "the front soldier of pop journalism", a qualification with which he fully agreed. A retrospective of his work, called Rock Rossen Roll, was shown in 2005 in the Amsterdam multimedia center De Melkweg. Lex van Rossen died at the age of 57 from cancer. He was buried on March 2, 2007 at the Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats in Amsterdam.
LEX VAN ROSSEN (1950-2007) Michael Jackson, HIStory tour, Amsterdam, 1997
Vintage photograph
Vintage photograph
€ 150,00