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ROLLING STONE IMAGES OF ROCK & ROLL |
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Videos, for better or worse, are now the primary visual medium for rock & roll, not movies, not photographs. A video can have that kind of commercial impact. A photograph cannot. So what, then, can photographs tell us that videos can't? For one thing, a photograph is about a moment. It's not about a song -- or selling a song. Any message a photograph sends about an artist's work is secondary; its primary message is about who we believe that artist to be, how he or she wants to be seen, how the photographer perceives that person. For the artist, the photographer and the viewer, a photograph is a journey into the self. The moment captured in a photograph can be about the whim of an afternoon or the heart of an artist's vision.
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