Blind Faith & Bob Seidemann
Bob Seidemann & Blind Faith
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Bob Seidemann & Blind Faith
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Bob Seidemann was an American graphic artist and photographer who was born on December 28, 1941, in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Queens. He graduated from the Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades and apprenticed with photographer Tom Caravaglia in NYC before heading west to San Francisco. There he collaborated with David Getz, Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley, Big Brother and the Holding Company, George Hunter, The Charlatans, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead to create photographic images at the forefront of the popular and revolutionary culture of the time. His 1967 portraits of a semi-nude Joplin earned him wide acclaim.
Janis Joplin - 1967
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Net links:
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gragroupblog ~ End of an era: the passing of photographer Bob Seidemann
MSR Institute ~ Airplane as Art
NY Times obit
Print Magazine ~ Bob Seidemann’s Provocative and Heavenly Photos
TRPS ~ The Rock Photographer Who Set His Artistic Sights Higher
Vintage Everyday ~ Mariora Goschen: Girl on the Blind Faith album Cover
Washington Post obit
date & photographer unknown
Bob Seidemann was an American graphic artist and photographer who was born on December 28, 1941, in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Queens. He graduated from the Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades and apprenticed with photographer Tom Caravaglia in NYC before heading west to San Francisco. There he collaborated with David Getz, Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley, Big Brother and the Holding Company, George Hunter, The Charlatans, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead to create photographic images at the forefront of the popular and revolutionary culture of the time. His 1967 portraits of a semi-nude Joplin earned him wide acclaim.
Janis Joplin - 1967
photos by Bob Seidemann
Seidemann photographed The Grateful Dead a number of times during
their peak, both for posters and album liners, as well as designing the
covers for the debut solo album of Jerry Garcia, Garcia, and the Dead's Wake of the Flood with Rick Griffin illustrations.
Seidemann took the Grateful Dead to Daly City, Calif., south of San Francisco,
for a shoot. The five band members, all dressed in black, stood in the
middle of a suburban street of look-alike houses, their faces
illuminated eerily by light reflected from mirrors pointed at them by
assistants.
When Eric Clapton formed his new band he commissioned Seidemann to create the cover for their album. Seidemann photographed a nude 11-year-old girl to create what would become his most famous and controversial work, titled Blind Faith. Not only did it become the cover and title of Blind Faith the album, but the name of the band as well.
Seidemann explained:
His 1969 Blind Faith flush-mounted and signed chromogenic photo print (#17 of an edition of 30), sold at Sotheby's in New York City on June 24, 2014, (lot 20),
at $17,500.
vinyl LP album cover
art work & design by Bob Seidemann
Grateful Dead -1967
When Eric Clapton formed his new band he commissioned Seidemann to create the cover for their album. Seidemann photographed a nude 11-year-old girl to create what would become his most famous and controversial work, titled Blind Faith. Not only did it become the cover and title of Blind Faith the album, but the name of the band as well.
vinyl LP front cover
photo by Bob Seidemann
photo of album by Styrous®
Seidemann explained:
"I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a spaceship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe, innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare's Juliet. The spaceship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.
The spaceship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweller at the Royal College of Art. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. The beginning of the transition from girl to woman, that is what I was after. That temporal point, that singular flare of radiant innocence. Where is that girl?"
Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl reported to be 14 years old on the London Underground
about modelling for the cover, and eventually met with her parents, but
that she proved too old for the effect he wanted. Instead, the model he
used was her younger sister Mariora Goschen, who was reported to be 11
years old. Mariora initially requested a horse as a fee but was instead paid £40.
In
1994, more than a quarter of a century after her one-off photo shoot,
36 year old Mariora Goschen said in an interview: “The nudity didn’t
bother me. I hardly noticed I had breasts. Life was far too hectic. I
was mad about animals and much taken up with family and friends. But
now, when people tell me they can remember what they were doing when
they first saw the cover, and the effect it had on them, I’m thrilled to
bits.” She added, “By the way, I’m still waiting for Eric Clapton to
ring me about the horse.”
More than 40 years later, when Who Shot Rock & Roll, a touring exhibition of 175 pictures, went to the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, a group demanded that the Blind Faith
cover be removed. “It stayed in,” Gail Buckland, the exhibition’s
curator, said in an interview. “But it was still pushing buttons in
2011.”
From 1974 till 1984 Seidemann produced more than 60 record album covers in Los Angeles, among them Late for the Sky, by Jackson Browne, and On the Beach (1974) by Neil Young.
From 1974 till 1984 Seidemann produced more than 60 record album covers in Los Angeles, among them Late for the Sky, by Jackson Browne, and On the Beach (1974) by Neil Young.
vinyl LP front cover
design by Gary Burden
photo by Bob Seidemann
From the late 1980s till 2000, Seidemann produced a portfolio of
302 aviation-themed photographs entitled Airplane as Art. Striking
abstract photographs of all manner of aircraft and environmental
portraits of aircraft engineers, designers, and pilots make up the
collection.
The fighting machine is the clearest example of form following function. Commercial aircraft users are not interested in hard diving inverted turns. Rather they would prefer uneventful journeys. As a consequence all commercial aircraft look virtually alike. It is the military flying machines that display extraordinary and varied shape. It is the blend of exterior form and interior mechanism, electronics, and human interaction that creates "living" kinetic sculpture.
Airplane As Art is in included in the Getty Museum Photography Collection, McDermott Library at The University of Texas, Dallas, and The Boeing Corporate Collection.
The fighting machine is the clearest example of form following function. Commercial aircraft users are not interested in hard diving inverted turns. Rather they would prefer uneventful journeys. As a consequence all commercial aircraft look virtually alike. It is the military flying machines that display extraordinary and varied shape. It is the blend of exterior form and interior mechanism, electronics, and human interaction that creates "living" kinetic sculpture.
Airplane As Art is in included in the Getty Museum Photography Collection, McDermott Library at The University of Texas, Dallas, and The Boeing Corporate Collection.
Bob Seidemann - 2014
photographer unknown
Bob Seidemann died on Nov. 27, 2017, at his home in Vallejo, Calif. His wife, Belinda Seidemann, said he had Parkinson’s disease. He was 75 years old.
Viewfinder links:
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Jackson Browne
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Net links:
Bob Seidemann website
gragroupblog ~ End of an era: the passing of photographer Bob Seidemann
MSR Institute ~ Airplane as Art
NY Times obit
Print Magazine ~ Bob Seidemann’s Provocative and Heavenly Photos
TRPS ~ The Rock Photographer Who Set His Artistic Sights Higher
Vintage Everyday ~ Mariora Goschen: Girl on the Blind Faith album Cover
Washington Post obit
“To be honest with you, I wasn’t very interested in the music,
it was the scene, you know?"
~ Bob Seidemann
Styrous® ~ Friday, June 21, 2017
October 30, 2013
101 Reel-To-Reel Tapes 17: Stephen Stills 2
reel-to-reel album cover
album cover photo by Henry Diltz
photo of album cover by Styrous®
In addition to my vinyl collection I'm selling, I have hundreds of
reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes I'm selling. This is an entry about one of them that was for sale on eBay (see link below for others). I have the vinyl LP version as
well. Interested? Contact me by email, please, not by a comment.
Stephen Stills 2
reel-to-reel album cover back
photo by Styrous®
Released on June 30, 1971, Stephen Stills 2 is the second solo album by Stephen Stills. In spite of the impressive personnel, Jerry Garcia, Nils Lofgren, Eric Clapton, David Crosby, Ringo Starr (that's right, of The Beatles) and many others (see listing below), it was not a successful album.
The songs are good, perhaps not great (with the exception of Know You Got to Run), but good and enjoyable.
A truly GREAT song, Know You Got to Run, with it's Appalachian, blue-grass feeling banjo, is my favorite tune on the album and one of my all-time favorites. It is quiet, a bit sad and regretful but it has a hushed beauty I dearly love. Be sure to listen to it (lyrics & link to it on YouTube below).
Change Partners, with it's intermittent, waltz beat, has an almost country feel to it. Fishes and Scorpions is a mellow sort of song and Eric Clapton plays lead and backing guitars on the tune which rocks out from time to time. Sugar Babe is a nice, gently bouncy love song.
Near the bottom of this post there are links to the songs mentioned on YouTube so you can hear them for yourself, if you'd like.
Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN and Buffalo Springfield.
The songs are good, perhaps not great (with the exception of Know You Got to Run), but good and enjoyable.
A truly GREAT song, Know You Got to Run, with it's Appalachian, blue-grass feeling banjo, is my favorite tune on the album and one of my all-time favorites. It is quiet, a bit sad and regretful but it has a hushed beauty I dearly love. Be sure to listen to it (lyrics & link to it on YouTube below).
Change Partners, with it's intermittent, waltz beat, has an almost country feel to it. Fishes and Scorpions is a mellow sort of song and Eric Clapton plays lead and backing guitars on the tune which rocks out from time to time. Sugar Babe is a nice, gently bouncy love song.
Near the bottom of this post there are links to the songs mentioned on YouTube so you can hear them for yourself, if you'd like.
Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN and Buffalo Springfield.
Stephen Stills 2
reel-to-reel in box
photo by Styrous®
Know You Got to Run Lyrics
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Seen you in the city
Seen you on the road
Your face is all a twisted
'Cause your brain's a heavy load
Then you turn and ask me
How did I ever know
Talk about your searchin'
Well I think it's all for show
Heard your mournful song
Heard your baleful cry
Seen the light of hunger
Lingering deep within your eyes
Talk about your sinkin'
What a hole you're in
You expect for me to love you
When you hate yourself my friend
And you got yourself a potion
For to keep you from your sleep
In the dark and lonely hour
I heard you laugh and weep
You'll always be runnin'
'Til you find your doom
Never face your lonely soul
Never face the gloom
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Songwriters:
Stephen Stills/John Hopkins
Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Seen you in the city
Seen you on the road
Your face is all a twisted
'Cause your brain's a heavy load
Then you turn and ask me
How did I ever know
Talk about your searchin'
Well I think it's all for show
Heard your mournful song
Heard your baleful cry
Seen the light of hunger
Lingering deep within your eyes
Talk about your sinkin'
What a hole you're in
You expect for me to love you
When you hate yourself my friend
And you got yourself a potion
For to keep you from your sleep
In the dark and lonely hour
I heard you laugh and weep
You'll always be runnin'
'Til you find your doom
Never face your lonely soul
Never face the gloom
Know you got to run
Know you got to hide
Don't know who to follow
Who is on your side?
Don't know where you're going
You won't talk of where you've been
And I may see you tomorrow
Nevermore again
Songwriters:
Stephen Stills/John Hopkins
Published by
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Track listing
All songs written by Stephen Stills unless otherwise noted.
Side 1
1. Change Partners – 3:13
2. Nothin' To Do But Today – 2:40
3. Fishes and Scorpions – 3:13
4. Sugar Babe – 4:04
5. Know You Got to Run (Stills, John Hopkins) – 3:50
6. Open Secret – 5:00
Side 2
1. Relaxing Town – 2:20
2. Singin' Call – 3:01
3. Ecology Song – 3:22
4. Word Game – 4:13
5. Marianne – 2:27
6. Bluebird Revisited – 5:23
All songs written by Stephen Stills unless otherwise noted.
Side 1
1. Change Partners – 3:13
2. Nothin' To Do But Today – 2:40
3. Fishes and Scorpions – 3:13
4. Sugar Babe – 4:04
5. Know You Got to Run (Stills, John Hopkins) – 3:50
6. Open Secret – 5:00
Side 2
1. Relaxing Town – 2:20
2. Singin' Call – 3:01
3. Ecology Song – 3:22
4. Word Game – 4:13
5. Marianne – 2:27
6. Bluebird Revisited – 5:23
Personnel
- Bass - Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels, Stephen Stills
- Congas - Gaspar Lawrawal, Rocky Dijon
- Drums - Conrad Isidore, Dallas Taylor, "English Richie" (Ringo Starr)
- Guitar - Eric Clapton (on Fishes And Scorpions), Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills
- Keyboards - Billy Preston, Mac Rebennack, Nils Lofgren, Paul Harris, Stephen Stills
- Saxophone [Baritone] - Floyd Newman, James Mitchell
- Saxophone [Tenor] - Andrew Love, Ed Logan, Sidney George
- Trombone - Jack Helm
- Trumpet - Roger Hopps, Wayne Jackson
- Vocals - David Crosby, Fearless Freddy, Henry Diltz, Nils Lofgren, Stephen Stills
- Pedal steel guitar (on Change Partners) - Jerry Garcia
- Engineer - Bill Halverson
- Producers - Bill Halverson, Stephen Stills
reel-to-reel listings on eBay
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reel-to-reel tape archive
Styrous® ~ October 30, 2013
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