Michael Putland is a British music photographer who 'never had a day off in the ‘70s'^[1]. He has photographed thousands of artists, literally from Abba to Zappa. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director

1 Biography
2 Career
3 The Rolling Stones
- 3.1 Genesis Publications
4 New York
5 Editorial work
6 Select Album covers
7 Press
8 Galleries
- 8.1 Other
- 8.2 Notes

Biography

Born in 1947 just outside London, Michael Putland took up photography at the age of 9. He is a portrait photographer and photojournalist most noted for his extensive archive of photographs of musicians and other famous subjects. His current work is more directed to photographing classical musicians, as well as fashion and travel photography.

Putland left school at 16 and began working in a photographic studio in London. From 1965 to 1967 he assisted Walter Curtin, a Time-Life photographer, with his photojournalism and commercial advertising work. The Time-Life company was founded by Time Incorporated in 1961 as a book marketing division After Curtin returned to his adopted home in Canada, Putland set up as a photographer in his own right, and in 1969 he and a friend rented their own photographic studio. By 1971, he was the official photographer for the British music magazine Disc & Music Echo. His first assignment for them that year was to photograph Mick Jagger in London. Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, Kt (born 26 July 1943 is a Golden Globe -winning and two-time Grammy -winning English rock

Career

The Rolling Stones

Already shooting regularly for British magazines like Disc and Music Echo, Putland was hired as the tour photographer for The Rolling Stones European Tour 1973 and this led to a long-term relationship with the Stones. The Rolling Stones 1973 European Tour was a concert tour of Great Britain and Continental Europe in September and October 1973 by The Rolling Some of his best-selling images come from this period of close association with the band, for example his portrait of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh with a grinning, boy-ish Mick Jagger nestled between them ^[2].

Genesis Publications

In 1999, Genesis Publications produced a limited edition book containing over 400 images of the Rolling Stones by Putland. Genesis Publications Limited is a British publishing company founded in 1974 by Brian Roylance a former student of the London College of Printing Putland was on the sets of Stones videos, including the It's Only Rock and Roll shoot with the band in their sailor suits, and the tracks Some Girls and Respectable - a still from the latter was used in 2005 as the cover for Rolling Stones Rarities and Putland also had the original Respectable 1978 single cover. " It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It " is the lead single from English Rock and roll band The Rolling Stones ' 1974 album It's Some Girls is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1978 For other uses including the UK sitcom see Respectable (disambiguation. For other uses including the UK sitcom see Respectable (disambiguation. Also published are shots of Mick Taylor; a candid set of the band backstage at The New York Palladium with the McCartneys; Bianca Jagger; and an extensive number of images of the band both onstage and off during the 1970s and 1980's. Michael "Mick" Kevin Taylor (born 17 January 1949 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) is an English Musician best known as a The Palladium was a concert hall and later a nightclub in New York City. Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías on May 2, 1950) is a social and Human rights advocate also former model ^[3]

New York

Putland lived and worked in New York City from 1977 – 1984 during which period he photographed extensively for the major record labels including Capitol, WEA, Polygram, Columbia Records and A&M Records. The City of New York Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as Warner Music Group (WMG is the third-largest of the "big four" major record labels, the others being Sony BMG, EMI, and Universal PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the Major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945 Columbia Records is an American Record label founded in 1888 Columbia is the oldest surviving Brand name in pre-recorded sound being the first record company A&M Records is an American Record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division Whilst in New York he also started a music photo library called Retna which he was involved in running for nearly 30 years and which he sold in 2006.

Editorial work

Putland was hired regularly to shoot magazine covers and posters for British music publications as diverse as Smash Hits (Bananarama, Wham); Sounds (Bryan Ferry, Paul McCartney) and Q Magazine (a shoot in Brazil with The Cure ^[4] and at the other end of the pop spectrum, Wet Wet Wet). This article is about a magazine For the compilation album by Jimi Hendrix, see Smash Hits (album. Bananarama are an English Girl group who have had success on the "Wham" redirects here For other uses see Wham (disambiguation. Sounds was a British Music paper, published weekly from October 10, 1970 &ndash April 6, 1991 Bryan Ferry (born 26 September 1945 in Washington, Sunderland) is an English Singer, Musician, Songwriter and occasional Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer, Q is a Music Magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, with a circulation of 130179 as of June 2007 The Cure are an English rock band that formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976 Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish pop band that formed in the 1980s They scored a number of hits in the British charts and around the world He also shot on the sets of TV shows like Top of the Pops adding The Bee Gees, Traffic, The Who, Duran Duran and Elvis Costello to his archive in the 1970s and 1980's. Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart Television programme, made and broadcast The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. The primary lineup consisted of guitarist Pete Townshend Duran Duran are an English Pop rock band famous for a long series of popular singles, albums and vivid Music videos for which they've won two Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 25 August 1954 is an English Musician and Singer-songwriter, with Irish ancestry But it was his first client, Disc and Music Echo that set him out on the varied road of music photography by giving him his very first shoot. Other images that have become iconic and were shot for Disc include David Bowie ^[5] and John Lennon ^[6]. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born

Select Album covers

Press

Galleries

Other

Notes

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