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Shortly after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971, Bob became John and Yoko's personal photographer and friend, making photos of their working life as well as private moments. In 1974, he created the iconic images of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt and, standing in front of the Statue of Liberty making the peace sign - two of the most popular of Lennon's images. Bob has worked with major rock acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Elton John, Aerosmith, Kiss, and Alice Cooper. In 1989, he documented the epic trip to Russia of the "Moscow Music Peace Festival" featuring Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, and Bon Jovi. For many years Bob was the official photographer for the New York New Music Seminar, covering dozens of aspiring new bands in the course of a summer week. As chief photographer for Rock Scene Magazine in the 1970s, Bob specialized in candid, behind the scenes photo features. He toured extensively with the emerging punk and new wave bands including the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Clash, Ramones, Patti Smith Group, and Blondie. This seminal body of work reflects a profound commitment and long-standing personal friendship with the artists. His wealth of personal experiences and uncanny memory provide the most illuminating and comprehensive histories of rock youth culture. In June, 2004, in London, Bob was presented with MOJO Magazine's prestigious Honours List Award for Classic Image.
In 1979, Nickelsberg traveled to Central America and photographed the final days of Nicaragua's Somoza government. In 1981, he moved to El Salvador and began a 4-year stay covering Central America and became a contract photographer for Time magazine. Nickelsberg moved to South East Asia in 1986 and New Delhi, India in 1988 where he lived until 1999. Nickelsberg has extensively documented the insurgency in India's Kashmir, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan and India's Hindu nationalism movement. Nickelsberg relocated to the U.S. in 1999. Since then he has photographed in Florida, the Caribbean, Cuba, Colombia and the 2000 U.S. presidential elections. In 2003, he covered the Iraq invasion as a contract photographer for Time traveling with the U.S. Marines into Baghdad. He continues to document the on-going effects of terrorism in South Asia and the Middle East.
Pegram is currently the photographer for the "Lord of the Dance", one of Las Vegas's top shows and also has a diverse clientele such as FILA, SWATCH, Bikini Bay, and has specialty assignments for many celebrities from John Nordstrom to Booth Gardiner. One of his most exciting assignments was shooting publicity photos for the 1990 Goodwill games. David Allio is an international award-winning photojournalist and digital artist. His professional portfolio ranges from sports, editorial and corporate to glamour, fine art and portraiture. Since 1974, his unique photographs have appeared on album covers, postcards, posters, billboards, calendars, display advertising and in movies, books, catalogs, magazines and other periodicals. Outside North American, Allio is best known and honored as an accomplished traditional and contemporary nude figure artist. In North American, he is better-known as a professional photojournalist defined by his vivid editorial and feature images. Since 1978, this self-taught photographer has been a featured instructor and lecturer at a variety of photographic workshops and seminars. His instructional topics have ranged from traditional darkroom techniques to elements of digital sports photography. His audiences vary from high school students to senior citizens, and beginning amateur shutterbugs to career professional photographers. His photography and digital artworks have been exhibited in museums, art galleries and private shows throughout the United States, in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and several European countries. An Allio image has been featured in NY Arts Magazine. And in 2006, an Allio art exhibition was presented in The Saatchi Gallery, London Contemporary Art Gallery. His original Limited Edition Prints and Commissioned Works are prized by private collectors worldwide. Allio's commercial client list contains several Fortune 100 companies, including: RJR, Time Warner, UPS, plus ad agencies for General Motors and Ford. His extensive portfolio contains a variety of celebrities and sports figures, including: Burt Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Paul Newman, and Willie Nelson, winners of both the Miss America and Miss USA pageants, plus professional football, baseball, basketball, motorsports and golf athletes. Since the start of the new millenium, Allio has won special awards in the annual Photography Unlimited international photo competition. A recent recognition came for a scenic landscape image from Kaua'i, Hawai'i. Throughout a professional career that spans four decades, he has won an assortment of American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA) awards for motorsports photography. He is a former official NASCAR photographer and spent 17 years as a contract sports marketing photographer for the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company at various AMA, IHRA, IMSA, NASCAR, NHRA and USHRA series events. Since the mid-1970s, he has served as the chief track photographer at ten different race tracks, including the Bristol Motor Speedway. Allio is currently the Chief Track Photographer at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In November 1999, David Allio was selected by Lycos, Italy, as one of the top four modern erotic artists/photographers in the world. According to Tatiana Tartuferi, Editor, Lycos Bertelsmann: "Allio's work represents a great mix of traditional influences in modern artistic techniques." In 2001, Allio and his images - photographs and digital artworks - were the subject of a 30-minute feature broadcast on PBS. The program entitled "Impressions" was produced by South Carolina Educational Television. Allio is a member of both Canon and Nikon Professional Services. He is also a charter member of the Digital Imaging Association. In July 2006, Allio hit the "trifecta" of big-three stick-and-ball sports magazines by selling photos for publication in Sports Illustrated, ESPN-The Magazine, and The Sporting News. Allio is currently a contract photographer with the New York Times, Stephens Media, Knight Ridder, United Press International/UPI Photo, Gannett, and Reuters. Professional representation of his digital sports photography is provided by Icon Sports Media. Born in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, David Allio is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Communications and Visual Arts. When not traveling on assignment, David and his wife, Jacqueline, a UVaW summa cum laude and CPA, reside in Kaua'i, Hawai'i.
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Bob
Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in
rock and roll. From Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to
Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; John Lennon to Johnny Rotten, he
has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs
that have gained worldwide recognition.
Robert
Nickelsberg was born in New Jersey and graduated in 1972 from the
University of Vermont, where he studied Economics and History. After
attending photography courses at the San Francisco Art Institute
and the Apeiron Photography Workshops, Nickelsberg began photographing
for a humanitarian fundraising organization and in 1978 joined the
election campaign as a photographer of U.S. Congressman Andrew Maguire
of New Jersey.
Fashion
Photographer Billy Pegram has over twenty years experience in the
business and is the author of two books published by Amherst Media
of NY. His specialties, "Professional Model Portfolios" and "Fashion
Model Photography" has him currently working in Las Vegas but
he travels often to all western states. Through his photography,
he has placed many models with international agencies and many models
have gotten into Playboy over the past few years using his
photos. Pegram is always looking for new models.
Catherine
Angel is a professor of Art at the University of Nevada/Las Vegas.
Her photographic work and expertise spans Black-and-White Large Format
Photography, Mixed Media Collage and Handmade Books. Her work has
always been self-reflective, powerful, and challenging in content.
She has been exhibited in over 300 solo and group exhibitions in
galleries and museums throughout the world. The Catherine Edelman
Galley in Chicago currently represents her photographs. She received
her MFA in Photography from Indiana University in 1988 and her BFA
in Photography and Drawing from the University of Oklahoma in 1985.