Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography

Event Details

Organized by The Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia and guest curator Christopher Murray of Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C., Sound and Vision presents an extraordinary look at the intersection between popular music and great photography. Since the 1950s, rock and roll has developed as the most significant musical movement in contemporary culture. Helping define fashion, language, politics, and community, rock music continues to inspire and entertain audiences throughout the world.

This exhibition presents forty stunning large-scale prints of many of the most notable musicians, songwriters, and performers of the last half of the 20th century. Taken by twenty of the most accomplished photographers of the genre, these photographs in many ways define the way we look at the musical artists who created rock and roll. Starting with photographs of influential Blues musicians and early innovators such as Elvis Presley, through the British Invasion, protest music and the Psychedelic 60s, soul music, metal, glam rock, reggae, punk, grunge, and ending with hip-hop recording artists such as Tupac Shakur and Jay-Z, Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography explores the dynamic connection between the power of music and photography.

Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of SC, the member auxiliary group Gibbes, etc., Y102.5 radio, and Charleston magazine.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Planters Inn, a 64-room Relais & Chateaux property situated in Charleston’s historic City Market is offering the Little Bit Country, Little Bit Rock n’ Roll package, which includes accommodations, breakfast, valet parking, tickets to Middleton Plantation, and tickets to the Gibbes to see Sound and Vision. Call (843) 722-2345 or visit www.plantersinn.com for package pricing and details.