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About this photograph
The band shot that accompanied the Jim Morrison TV/Xray portrait in Life Magazine’s April 1968 ‘The New Rock’ photo essay. This photograph is an Art Kane ‘sandwich’ image, a technique Kane pioneered in which he layered 35mm transparencies for enhanced story telling and to invest his images with metaphor. in this case, layering the image of The Doors seated in a hallway of the Chateau Marmot with a secondary image of the sun over the Pacific ocean. Interestingly, this image was was created several months before the release of their hit album ‘Waiting for the Sun’.
Print sizes and editions
16” x 20” paper size - Edition of 25
30” x 40” paper size - Edition of 4
50” x 75” paper size - Edition of 4
Print type
C-type print
Paper type
Epson Fine Art semi-matte archival paper
Signature
Estate stamped
About the photographer
Art Kane was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Kane's work encompassed fashion, editorial, celebrity portraiture, travel, and nudes with a relentless and innovative eye. Kane pioneered photographic storytelling by investigating his image with metaphor and poetry, effectively turning photography into illustration. In 1958, Kane assembled the greatest legends in jazz and shot what became one of his most famous images, Harlem 1958.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he photographed, among others, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Janis Joplin, the Doors, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan. In his lifetime Kane was honored by almost every photo-design organization in the United States and his contributions to photography continue to resonate to this day.
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