One exhibition showcases rare behind-the-scenes photographs of fantastic US rock band Blondie. The free display at the Barbican Music Library features 50 images taken in New York during the group’s breakthrough year in 1978, when they released their best-known album, Parallel Lines.
The photographs were taken by music photographer Martyn Goddard, who documented the band in concert, backstage, in the studio and during photo shoots. He said: “When I boarded the plane in May 1978 to photograph Blondie’s lead singer, Debbie Harry, in New York, I could not have conceived that there would still be a demand for my images over 45 years later”.
Mr Goddard described the exhibition as a visual snapshot of a key moment in Blondie’s history, capturing the band’s “energy, rawness, and style”.
“Those assignments produced a body of work that resulted in magazine cover stories, album and single covers, tour programmes, posters, a book, and two photo exhibitions.”
Here’s a selection.
Lots of memorabilia too …
Upstairs in the main library is another treat, work by the City of London and Cripplegate Photographic Society …
Here’s a small selection …
Well worth a visit.
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