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The Who, New York City, 1968. Copyright © Art Kane Archive. All Rights Reserved. In a career that spanned nearly 50 years, first as an art director and later as a photographer, Art Kane explored a number of genres, including fashion, editorial and celebrity portraiture, with a crisp and deliberate approach that was also innovative. […]

Comedian and actor Richard Lewis’ much-anticipated guide on how not to live, Reflections From Hell, is being published next month by powerHouse Books. Accompanied by artist Carl Nicholas Titolo’s brilliant images created especially for the book, Reflections From Hell also features a foreword by Larry David along with a preface by editor Chris Murray. If […]

From left to right: Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Williams, Govinda Gallery artist Carlotta Hester, and Chris Murray at the First African Baptist Church of East Savannah. Copyright © Gordon Varnedoe. All Rights Reserved. I recently visited Savannah, Georgia for a few days. I was shown around that beautiful city by my friend and Savannah native […]

Sam Charters recording Sleepy John Estes, Brownsville, TN 1962. Photo by Ann Charters. Sam Charters was essential in the revival of blues and folk music in the 60s and 70s. His book The Country Blues and the compilation album of the same title was a key influence on so many musical artists. Bob Dylan, for […]

Taschen has published an extraordinary collection of photographs of The Rolling Stones in their new book simply titled The Rolling Stones. It is the best collection of photographs of the Rolling Stones in a single book. We love the book here at Govinda Gallery as 17 of the photographers featured in the book have shown […]

Enjoy this live-action drawing by Carlotta Hester from The Pure Drop series of traditional Irish musicians, singers, and dancers from the All Island Music Festival. Irish step dancer Clare McDermott with Irish musicians, County Cavan, August 20, 2010 at the Gig Rig. Copyright © Carlotta Hester. All Rights Reserved.

Björk performing at Big Day Out in 1994, Melbourne Australia. From the exhibition La Revolucion del Rock & Roll. Copyright © Ross Halfin. All Rights Reserved. There is a buzz around Björk at the moment with the release of her new album “Vulnicura” and the recent opening in New York City at the Museum of […]

Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive celebrates the rich heritage of one of America’s greatest cultural legacies, the blues. Dick Waterman has been representing and photographing blues artists for over fifty years and in Between Midnight and Day, he collects these rare images, many previously unseen, and illuminates them with his own […]

In 1941 Richard Evans Schultes took a term’s leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the north west Amazon of Colombia. Twelve years later, he returned having gone places no outsider had ever been, mapping uncharted rivers and living among two dozen Indian tribes while collecting some thirty thousand botanical specimens, including two […]

Joseph Spence, Cambridge, 1972. Copyright © Dick Waterman. All Rights Reserved. While studying journalism at Boston University in the late 1950s, Dick Waterman began writing for Broadside magazine, where he was exposed to many different types of music of the day. By the early 1960s, he had begun to focus on traditional blues music. In […]