Dead rock stars, alive on coffee tables
By Ryan • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy John Rogers (AP) article in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
“LOS ANGELES – Deborah Chesher was going through her old boxes of negatives one day when a thought crossed the photographer’s mind about how young and alive all of the guitar gods of her youth had been.
It was quickly followed by the realization that many of those rockers were also dead, and most had died young.
She has now brought those synaptic occurrences into focus in the coffee-table book Everybody I Shot Is Dead. The 208-page volume, with photos in black-and-white and color, celebrates the joyous, often unguarded, moments of some of rock music’s biggest stars.
The book also chronicles some of the legendary excesses that led such stars as Harry Nilsson, the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, T. Rex’s Marc Bolan, and scores of others to their early exits. Chesher, however, chooses to downplay that element.
“It’s truly not about dead people as much as it is about how amazing these musicians were,” Chesher says as she sips a latte during a recent interview at a friend’s art studio.”
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