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"   This weekend I went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the new exhibit &amp;quot;Who Shot Rock &amp;amp;amp; Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present.&amp;quot; The show&amp;#039;s goal is to recognize those photographers who documented rock music\u2014the artists who have contributed some of the most iconic and recognizable images in the world. For example, Bob Gruen&amp;#039;s hugely popular image of John Lennon wearing the sleeveless I Love New York T-shirt, which in the exhibit is displayed alongside a contact sheet that offers refreshingly new and silly images of Lennon from that shoot. Shots like these comprise a total of 175 works by 105 photographers that make for a colorful and narrative journey into the life of rock stars, legends, and gods. Six genres of photographs are featured: behind the scenes, young musicians at the beginning of their careers, live performances, crowds and fans, portraits, and conceptual images and album covers. What makes this collection so powerful is the intimacy of the subjects. I&amp;#039;m still haunted by Ian Tilton&amp;#039;s photograph of Kurt Cobain having a backstage-breakdown moments after a performance: Cobain is collapsed on the floor, fists clenched, face distorted with anguish. Some of my other favorites are a second portrait of John Lennon taken by Richard Avedon, in which Lennon&amp;#039;s eyes hypnotize with their tranquility, and Don Hunstein&amp;#039;s shot of Bob Dylan walking with his girlfriend down a snowy street in Greenwich Village.  The exhibit is open through January 31st 2010 at the Brooklyn Museum. \u2014Angela Bliumis, Editorial Assistant    Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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