Bob Gruen

John Lennon "Proof Sheet"

1974

Stevie Wonder photographed during a rehearsal session in Los Angeles in 1974. Taken with a 16mm lens. The photograph is made up of two archival pigment photos that are cut into st...

Johnny Cash getting off bus at Folsom Prison for the historic performance in 1968. Photograph is part of edition of only 25. Only being printed in the 16x20 inch size. Estate Stam...

Taken in Greenwich Village, NYC. 1970. Neil Young and Graham Nash.

The Band "Big Pink" album cover is one of the most iconic Albums of all time. This archival pigment photograph looks like it was taken during the Civil War. ...

Led Zeppelin standing in front of their tour plane "Starship" in 1973. Photograph taken at JFK airport before heading to Pittsburgh, PA. Signed by photographer.

Horses in Mongolia by Anne Menke.

Palm trees slowly moving in the breeze. Abstract black and white landscape photograph of palm trees, printed by hand in a traditional darkroom on fiber based gelatin silver paper. Si...

Rare one of a kind silver gelatin lith print on foma paper of a Cuban man grinding coffee in a tree stump. Contemporary documentary photograph, taken in Santiago De Cuba. Shot on medium format film and printed by hand in a traditional photo darkroom. Cuban coffee...

A magical and mysterious black and white landscape photograph taken in the Armenian highlands. In the distance, where the mist and mountains are you see rainfall. Photographed with a medium format Hasselblad camera and a red filter to darken the sky. A limited edition of five prints sized at 25x25 inches, printed by hand in a traditional darkroom on gelatin silver paper. There are only two left in the edition at this size. Framed with wide, antique black stained...

A pair of gold toned silver gelatin prints of butterflies. The prints are 5.5 x 6.5 inches each and framed as a diptych with 8 ply museum mattboard. Framed dimension are 12.5x18 inc...

Limited edition silver gelatin print (#1 of 15). "Emergence" series, shot in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 2009, printed later that year (in New York). This was the first series I made after the heartbreaking loss of my mother. Making this body of work is what got me through it. All of my images are essentially subconscious self-portraits (or spiritual landscapes...

I began making photograms with alternate light sources in 2020, due to having an unfinished darkroom at the time of the shutdown. (Fortunately, the wet side was nearly complete just prior and I had a ton of old European sized Forte in my paper safe to experiment with). "Into the Ether" was my first in-depth body of cameraless work, which was completed at the end of the year. All of my images are essentially subconscious self-portraits which reveal themselves during my printing processes (that applies to both film-based prints and unique darkroom darkroom prints made without the use of a camera). This award-winning series took shape while in the height of covid-based isolation. However, making the work led to my now current occupation, as I now specialize in experimental photograms and teach some of my processes. "Flower Implosion" was one of my first sparkler exposures involving moving water; Made with flowers and water, this triple exposed sparkler-o-gram debuted via an online exhibition...