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THE LOST ROCK & ROLL NEGATIVES
OF MICHAEL FRIEDMAN
currently on exhibit:
UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROCK & ROLL LEGENDS
The Rye Arts Center, Rye, New York
January 15 - February 15, 2025
"It’s remarkable that Michael documented this important flash point in music history and captured its energy and personality. We are so honored to exhibit these amazing photos of iconic artists and share them with the world"
- Greg Harris, CEO Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Lost in storage, the negatives for these incredible photos of legendary musicians were recently discovered in Michael Friedman’s attic.
Friedman was an avid photographer when he worked in the music business in the 60’s and 70’s as a manager and producer. He had the opportunity to befriend, work with, and photograph, legendary musical artists including Janis Joplin, The Band, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Todd Rundgren, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, James Cotton & the Rolling Stones.
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosted a year long exhibit 2019-2020. The entire collection will be archived as "The Michael Friedman Collection" at the Hall of Fame's Museum.
“Mike Friedman was there when it all happened. Fortunately, many times so was his camera. An intimate view of that time when we were both ready for anything.”
- Bob Neuwirth, singer, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, Bob Dylan's tour manager and co-writer of "Mercedes Benz" with Janis Joplin.
“The images in EXPOSED put you right where Michael was, in the eye of the Rock ‘n’ Roll storm that blew through America between 1967 and 1973. You feel the sizzling thrill of the 1969 Stones Tour that climaxed so cloudily at Altamont; the wild bacchanalia of Joplin’s performances that ended so heartbreakingly with her death; the raw blues power of the hard-blowing Butterfield; the rootsy brotherhood of The Band at New York’s Felt Forum. EXPOSED fills in many of the gaps in the unmissable story of that heady era.”
- Barney Hoskyns, music critic and historian. Books include Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock and Across the Great Divide; The Band & America
see the entire collection in our book
240 PAGE 11"X12" COFFEE TABLE BOOK
A Time Capsule of 60s & 70s
Blues & Rock Legends
Featuring 200 Never-Published-Before photos of
Janis Joplin, The Band, Rolling Stones, Kris Kristofferson,
Todd Rundgren, Butterfield Blues Band & more
“Can we finally ditch that sniggering old saw about how anyone who remembers the 'Sixties wasn't there? Michael Friedman was waist-deep in its musical mayhem and he brought his Pentax. EXPOSED is an elegant, thoughtful, heartfelt, and atypically honest insider's diary of the rock & roll life curated by an unusually savvy observer. To his roles as manager, friend, confidant, and co-conspirator to such great artists as Janis Joplin, The Band, Paul Butterfield, Kris Kristofferson, and Todd Rundgren, Michael now adds chronicler. EXPOSED is simply stunning, an extraordinarily beautiful combination of kinetic onstage captures and intimate behind-the-scenes photos. It is America's musical life caught in 35MM black thunder and white lightning.”
- Fred Goodman, former senior editor at Rolling Stone Magazine and author of Mansion on the Hill, Allen Klein, and Rock on Film
All Images in the book now available as Limited Edition Prints
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