Richard Lewis…A Reflection with Love  //

  I first got to know Richard Lewis as a rare book collector of musical titles at Govinda Gallery, and then as his collaborator on Reflections from Hell: Richard Lewis’ Guide On How Not To Live. It was my great pleasure to edit Reflections from Hell, write the preface and to bring it to publication […]

Black is Beautiful Book Launch with LaMonte McLemore and Friends in Las Vegas  //

Black is Beautiful, featuring LaMonte McLemore‘s JET photographs is scheduled to be published today by powerHouse Books.   Black is Beautiful book cover.   It was my great pleasure and honor to collaborate these last few years with LaMonte McLemore in making this book. LaMonte, a founding member of The 5th Dimension vocal group also […]

Havana Part III: Viñales Valley, Experimental Graphics Workshop, Fabrica de Arte, and La Guarida  //

After the launch of David Fenton‘s SHOTS Exhibition, we drove to Viñales Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Pinar Del Rio, just a two hour drive from Havana. It is surely one of the most beautiful places I’ve been to in my life. We had a lovely lunch at Restaurante Buena Vista overlooking the […]

Havana Part II: Roberto Salas and Submarino Amarillo  //

After the opening of the SHOTS exhibition, I took David Fenton and his wife Sylvie Erb along with Carlotta Hester and Fabiola Castro to visit the home of one of Cuba’s greatest photographers of all time, Roberto Salas. Salas was one of the five ‘epic’ photographers of Cuba…the five who documented the Cuban revolution. I hosted […]

Havana Part I: David Fenton’s SHOTS Exhibition at the Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam Just Finished  //

David Fenton‘s exhibition SHOTS was a resounding success in Havana. It was a beautiful evening for the exhibition opening and everyone who came enjoyed making new friends. It was another remarkable exhibition in the series of cultural exchanges Govinda Gallery has enjoyed with Cuba since the first collaboration there, La Revolución del Rock & Roll, in […]

Dick Waterman 1935-2024  //

Dick Waterman © Bruce Newman, 2003 Dick Waterman passed away a few days ago on January 26. Dick was at the heart of Govinda Gallery with his remarkable Blues photographs and stories. I was honored to compile them in our book Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive (Insight Editions, 2004). Dick Waterman’s […]

Happy 80th Keith Richards!  //

Keith 1981, vintage photograph by Michael Halsband Govinda Gallery first exhibited Michael Halsband’s photographs in 1982 not long after this brilliant portrait of Keith was taken. That exhibition at Govinda, “Michael Halsband, Portrait Photography,” opened on April 23rd, 1982. Michael introduced me to Keith on his birthday in 1981 backstage after a Stones gig in […]

Happy Birthday, Alfred Wertheimer!  //

Alfred Wertheimer would be 94 today. He took the finest photos ever of a rock star… they happen to be of Elvis Presley in 1956. It was my great pleasure to be the editor of Alfred’s four books of his photographs of Elvis Presley, as well as my collaborating with Alfred as the curator of […]

Sinead O’Connor – The Parting Glass  //

Sinead O’Connor, Paris, 1992 © Claude Gassian Of all the money that e’er I had, I spent it in good company, And all the harm I’ve ever done, Alas it was to none but me. And all I’ve done for want of wit To mem’ry now I can’t recall, So fill to me the parting […]

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