PBS has acquired the domestic distribution rights to “Icon: Music Through the Lens,” a docuseries about the history of photography for rock stars and musicians through the years.
Dick Carruthers, a legendary music director who has worked with artists like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Beyonce, White Stripes, Oasis, Paul McCartney and Black Sabbath, directed and produced “Icon,” and music photographer Gered Mankowitz curated the series’ many iconic photos.
PBS plans to air the series this summer, which is in six, one-hour parts, as part of the network’s primetime lineup.
“Icon” charts the fascinating lives and often crazy experiences of music photogs, from the earliest darkrooms to the digital landscapes of the present day. The series examines famous studio portraits, record sleeves, music magazine shoots, live shows, exhibitions, social media, coffee table books and fine art to ask what makes an image iconic and discover what the future holds for music photography.
Dick Carruthers, a legendary music director who has worked with artists like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Beyonce, White Stripes, Oasis, Paul McCartney and Black Sabbath, directed and produced “Icon,” and music photographer Gered Mankowitz curated the series’ many iconic photos.
PBS plans to air the series this summer, which is in six, one-hour parts, as part of the network’s primetime lineup.
“Icon” charts the fascinating lives and often crazy experiences of music photogs, from the earliest darkrooms to the digital landscapes of the present day. The series examines famous studio portraits, record sleeves, music magazine shoots, live shows, exhibitions, social media, coffee table books and fine art to ask what makes an image iconic and discover what the future holds for music photography.
- 5/14/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: PBS has acquired U.S. domestic broadcast and digital rights to Icon: Music Through The Lens, a six-episode original series from FilmRise in partnership with Universal Music Group’s Mercury Studios.
PBS will air the one-hour episodes as part of their summer prime-time lineup, Brooklyn-based FilmRise announced today. The series explores studio portraits, record sleeves, music magazines, live shows, exhibitions, social media, coffee table books and the fine art world, and looks at the future music photography.
Musicians featured include Alice Cooper, Craig David, Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Ziggy Marley, Lars Ulrich, (Metallica), Zara Larsson, Stefflon Don and Dizzee Rascal. The show interviews photographers Jill Furmanovsky, Kevin Westenberg, Terry O’Neill, Kevin Cummins, Bob Gruen, Rachel Wright, Deborah Feingold, Baron Wolman, Neal Preston, Roger Sargent, Dean Chalkley, Tom Sheehan, Pooneh Ghana, Michael Zagaris, Danny Clinch, Rankin and Mick Rock.
FilmRise called the series “a thrill ride...
PBS will air the one-hour episodes as part of their summer prime-time lineup, Brooklyn-based FilmRise announced today. The series explores studio portraits, record sleeves, music magazines, live shows, exhibitions, social media, coffee table books and the fine art world, and looks at the future music photography.
Musicians featured include Alice Cooper, Craig David, Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), Ziggy Marley, Lars Ulrich, (Metallica), Zara Larsson, Stefflon Don and Dizzee Rascal. The show interviews photographers Jill Furmanovsky, Kevin Westenberg, Terry O’Neill, Kevin Cummins, Bob Gruen, Rachel Wright, Deborah Feingold, Baron Wolman, Neal Preston, Roger Sargent, Dean Chalkley, Tom Sheehan, Pooneh Ghana, Michael Zagaris, Danny Clinch, Rankin and Mick Rock.
FilmRise called the series “a thrill ride...
- 5/13/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Even for obsessive Rolling Stones fans, the story of founding guitarist Brian Jones’ death nearly 51 years ago has been so clouded with misinformation, controversy and battling agendas that at a certain point one just gives up wondering. An asthmatic with a long history of substance abuse, he drowned in the pool of his lovely home on July 3, 1969, at the age of 27 — just weeks after being ejected from the Stones. While his death was officially ruled misadventure by the coroner, there is little clarity about who was present at the time, what their motives were, and where exactly he drowned.
While “Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones” repeats much well-established information — and was clearly made without the cooperation of the Stones’ organization — it goes a long way toward clarifying the incident and presents reasonably convincing evidence that Jones was, if not murdered, then killed in an incident of manslaughter.
While “Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones” repeats much well-established information — and was clearly made without the cooperation of the Stones’ organization — it goes a long way toward clarifying the incident and presents reasonably convincing evidence that Jones was, if not murdered, then killed in an incident of manslaughter.
- 6/19/2020
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
“I took photos long before I was a musician,” former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman tells Rolling Stone. “I started out using an old Brownie box camera my uncle Jack Jeffrey gave me as a boy.”
Photography followed Wyman into his music career (“I find photography and music similar mathematically,” he says) and once the Stones’ career took off, he was regularly shooting his bandmates and his famous friends. He has now compiled some of these photos into a new folio, Stones From the Inside: Rare and Unseen Images — out...
Photography followed Wyman into his music career (“I find photography and music similar mathematically,” he says) and once the Stones’ career took off, he was regularly shooting his bandmates and his famous friends. He has now compiled some of these photos into a new folio, Stones From the Inside: Rare and Unseen Images — out...
- 2/28/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Roster includes docs on Banksy, Nikola Tesla, Rolling Stones.
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
- 10/29/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Roster includes docs on Banksy, Nikola Tesla, Rolling Stones.
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes female biker thriller Nation’s Fire starring Krista Grotte Saxon and Bruce Dern, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke.
Teknocentric’s female-centred biker action film Nation’s Fire stars Saxon, Gil Bellows and Dern and follows the former leader of a female motorcycle club who reunites with her gang to seek retribution after her son is killed in a school shooting. Thomas J. Churchill directed,...
- 10/29/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Roster includes docs on Banksy, Nikola Tesla, Rolling Stones.
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke and Sea Astin, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and The Rolling Stones.
Adverse also stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Penelope Ann Miller, Thomas Ian Nicholas, and Andrew Keegan. Brian A. Metcalf wrote and directed the story about a ride-share driver with a questionable past who attempts to pay off a crime syndicate to save his sister. Metcalf, Thomas Ian Nicholas produced the Black Jellybeans Productions...
Vision Films is lining up an Afm sales slate that includes a market screening of crime thriller Adverse starring Mickey Rourke and Sea Astin, as well as documentaries on Nikola Tesla, legendary street artist Banksy, and The Rolling Stones.
Adverse also stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Penelope Ann Miller, Thomas Ian Nicholas, and Andrew Keegan. Brian A. Metcalf wrote and directed the story about a ride-share driver with a questionable past who attempts to pay off a crime syndicate to save his sister. Metcalf, Thomas Ian Nicholas produced the Black Jellybeans Productions...
- 10/29/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
This World Heart Day, the British Heart Foundation has teamed up with world renowned photographer Rankin to launch an international art project with creatives from around the world, to raise awareness of the global fight against heart disease.
‘Heart for a Heart’ has seen celebrated artists, celebrities, photographers, and brands from around the world unite against heart disease by creating unique heart-themed artwork and uploading them to social media in celebration of World Heart Day.
The social media movement aims to raise awareness of heart and circulatory disease – the leading cause of death worldwide. In the UK alone, nearly 160,000 lives are lost to these devastating conditions each year, one every three minutes. Globally it causes an estimated 17.7 million deaths a year.
Among those taking part include actors Simon Pegg, Carey Mulligan, Anna Friel, Nicholas Hoult, Gillian Anderson, Sadie Frost, Ashley Margolis, Max Beesley, Noel Anthony Clarke, and Emma Pierson; TV personalities Holly Willoughby,...
‘Heart for a Heart’ has seen celebrated artists, celebrities, photographers, and brands from around the world unite against heart disease by creating unique heart-themed artwork and uploading them to social media in celebration of World Heart Day.
The social media movement aims to raise awareness of heart and circulatory disease – the leading cause of death worldwide. In the UK alone, nearly 160,000 lives are lost to these devastating conditions each year, one every three minutes. Globally it causes an estimated 17.7 million deaths a year.
Among those taking part include actors Simon Pegg, Carey Mulligan, Anna Friel, Nicholas Hoult, Gillian Anderson, Sadie Frost, Ashley Margolis, Max Beesley, Noel Anthony Clarke, and Emma Pierson; TV personalities Holly Willoughby,...
- 10/5/2017
- Look to the Stars
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