{"id":974292,"date":"2020-01-07T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=927009"},"modified":"2020-01-07T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:07:28","slug":"rock-and-roll-exposure-see-ethan-russells-legendary-photographs-of-john-lennon-the-rolling-stones-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/rock-and-roll-exposure-see-ethan-russells-legendary-photographs-of-john-lennon-the-rolling-stones-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll Exposure: See Ethan Russell\u2019s Legendary Photographs of John Lennon, the Rolling Stones, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ethan Russell<\/a> remembers getting a call from writer Jonathan Cott in 1968. \u201cHe said, \u2018Do you want to photograph my next interview?’\u201d says Russell, who had at that point photographed only one band: psychedelic San Francisco band Blue Cheer. Cott\u2019s interview happened to be with Mick Jagger<\/a> for Rolling Stone<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018This is it,’\u201d Russell says. \u201c\u2018I\u2019m happy for the rest of my life.’\u201d Russell would become one of the most prominent photographers in rock, capturing the Beatles, the Rolling Stones<\/a>, and the Who. His new book, Ethan Russell Photographs<\/i><\/a>, is a collection of these iconic images.<\/p>\n

Russell\u2019s photographs range from album cover shots like Linda Ronstadt<\/a>\u2019s Hasten Down the Wind<\/em> to intimate photos of John Lennon<\/a> and Yoko Ono<\/a>. The couple invited Russell to their home in the suburbs of London, where Russell arrived to an unlocked front door.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not the easiest person on the planet, but I got to have such respect for the two of them for what they put up with,\u201d Russell says. \u201cThey were vilified, but she in particular was vilified for 40 years. They really loved each other, and you can see it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Around 1978, Russell quit photography<\/a> and began directing films. He became inspired to transition into filmmaking after he photographed the book that accompanied the Who\u2019s Quadrophenia<\/em> in 1973. \u201cI didn\u2019t think people would take me seriously as a director if I was still taking pictures,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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Still, he reflects on his time as a photographer during the Sixties and Seventies as a pivotal time in music. \u201cI had a gift for it and I think I took it for granted,\u201d he says. \u201cI think it\u2019s historically true and fair to say that it was this generation of people that brought the singer-songwriter into popular music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was around them, I was very shy,\u201d he says of the musicians he shot. \u201cI very seldom told them what to do.\u201d Which worked out: \u201cYou get the most interesting pictures when the people are not <\/span>engaged with having their picture taken. [Because] having your photograph taken \u2014 what the fuck is that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ethan Russell remembers getting a call from writer Jonathan Cott in 1968. \u201cHe said, \u2018Do you want to photograph my next interview?’\u201d says Russell, who had at that point photographed only one band: psychedelic San Francisco band Blue Cheer. Cott\u2019s interview happened to be with Mick Jagger for Rolling Stone. \u201cI thought, \u2018This is it,’\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 11:59:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}