Gered Mankowitz is responsible for some of the most iconic images ever taken of music’s greatest performers. He began with the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s and never looked back. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, he has strengthened the cultural impact of the photographic genre he practices.
Mankowitz’s work has been explored in numerous books and exhibitions and is a subject explored in 2020's docuseries Icon: Music Through The Lens, airing on British television channel Sky Arts and streaming online. But a fitting introduction to this firebrand photographer would start with an electric shock, of sorts.
In 1967, he was commissioned to photograph a 24-year-old music prodigy by the name of Jimi Hendrix. Mankowitz, three years his subject’s junior, wasn’t sure what to expect of the guitar sensation from Seattle, who had just settled in the United Kingdom and was already being hailed by his peers as an artistic genius. The pictures that came out of the session, along with those produced during a second shoot with Hendrix that same year, are the most widely known and regarded as the most important portraits of the seminal guitarist. They not only celebrated Hendrix’s revolutionary spirit and ineffable charisma but also helped define an entire era of musical creativity.
The assignments kept rolling in, and soon Mankowitz had established a reputation as a spirited rock ’n’ roll portraitist. Then came the dream job: In 1965, at just 19, he became the official photographer of the Rolling Stones, a position that he held for two and a half years and ushered him into adulthood. Mankowitz maintains that he kept a cool head on the job and a professional attitude. “The Stones and I were great friends, but I always knew my limits. I didn’t feel I had to hang out with the band in order to fit in,” he says, confiding, “To be honest, I had a pretty wild lifestyle without their help!” One of Mankowitz’s most famous images of the Stones became the cover for their 1967 album Between the Buttons.
On 1stDibs, shop an impressively wide selection of Gered Mankowitz's work, which features some of the most significant musical artists of all time.
'Generation X' Signed Limited Edition
By Gered Mankowitz
Located in London, GB
'Eurythmics' SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION 1978 by Gered Mankowitz Portrait of Generation X. Photograph by Gered Mankowitz, Generation X, London 1978. All Prints are Signed and Limit...
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
'Generation X' (Billy Idol) SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION
By Gered Mankowitz
Located in London, GB
'Generation X' SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION 1978 by Gered Mankowitz Silver gelatin print - signed and numbered and stamped on the face of the print in the border below the image. LARGE 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Before Billy Idol...
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
'Generation X' (Billy Idol) SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION
By Gered Mankowitz
Located in London, GB
'Generation X' SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION 1978 by Gered Mankowitz Silver gelatin print - signed and numbered and stamped on the face of the print in the border below the image. LARGE 20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm Before Billy Idol...
Silver Gelatin
$3,700
H 14 in W 11 in D 0.07 in
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel, New Workers School, NY
By Lucienne Bloch
Located in Denton, TX
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel by Lucienne Bloch is a black a white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, posing in front of Diego Rivera's half painted mural. Ima...
Silver Gelatin
$7,500
H 14 in W 11 in D 0.1 in
Mother with Sons, 3rd Ward, Houston, TX - Vintage Print, Neighborhood
By Earlie Hudnall Jr.
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, dated and print type in pencil on print verso Vintage gelatin silver print Earlie Hudnall, who is one of the most notable African American photographers living today, has extensively documented the African American neighborhoods in Houston, Texas. After serving as a Marine in Vietnam, he enrolled at Texas Southern University, where he studied art under the direction of John Biggers, who became a great friend and mentor. During his time at TSU, he was hired to be a photographer for the Model Cities Program, part of Lyndon Johnson...
Silver Gelatin
World Cup Victory (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
World Cup Victory (1966) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images Archive) England captain Bobby Moore (1941 - 1993) holds up the Jules Rimet trophy as he ...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$950
H 8 in W 10 in
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Portrait Print of Anthony Haden Guest
By Gerard Malanga
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist. Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immi...
Silver Gelatin
$950
H 10 in W 8 in
Vintage Signed Silver Gelatin Photograph Portrait Print of Anthony Haden Guest
By Gerard Malanga
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerard Joseph Malanga (born March 20, 1943) is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, curator and archivist. Malanga was born in the Bronx in 1943, the only child of Italian immi...
Silver Gelatin
Couple in MG, Florence, Italy
By Ruth Orkin
Located in Denton, TX
No Edition Blind stamp on print margin. Signed by Estate, titled, dated and copyright date in pencil on artist stamp. Paper size: 16 x 20 in. Ruth Orkin (1921 - 1985) was an America...
Silver Gelatin
Peek-A-Boo Beatles (1965) - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Peek-A-Boo Beatles (1937) - Silver Gelatin Print (Photo by R. McPhedran/Express/Getty Images) 14th June 1965: The British rock group The Beatles stand in a window at Twickenham Fil...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
New York
By Don Donaghy
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated. American street photographer Don Donaghy (1936 - 2008, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was a fourth-generation native of Philadelphia. He studied commerci...
Silver Gelatin
Coney Island, NY
By Don Donaghy
Located in Denton, TX
Signed, titled, and dated in ink on print margin. American street photographer Don Donaghy (1936 - 2008, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was a fourth-generation native of Philadelph...
Silver Gelatin
$1,780
H 10.01 in W 8.12 in D 0.02 in
Ruth Ford - American actress and model - Original Photography by Cecil Beaton
By Cecil Beaton
Located in Cologne, DE
Ruth Ford - American actress and model - Original Photography by Cecil Beaton Photo taken in 1940s Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) is considered one of the mo...
Silver Gelatin
Joan Crawford - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Joan Crawford - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by Pictorial Press / Alamy Archives) Joan Crawford (1905-1977) US film actress. Additional Information: Unframed Pa...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
$3,700
H 8.25 in W 10.25 in D 0.1 in
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print
By Lucienne Bloch
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Biting Her Necklace by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Frida playfully bites her necklace as she poses for her portrait. Gelatin Silver Print Image size: 8.25 x 10.25 in. Paper size: 11 x 14 in. Signed on print margin recto in black ink. Lucienne Bloch was a prolific artist. Born in Switzerland, she soon moved with her family to American in mist of the growing tensions of war and anti-Semitism. At the young age of 15 years old, she attended The Cleveland Institute of Art and later in life enrolled in the Ecole National et Superier des Beaux Arts in Paris. Exceeding in her artistic endeavors, she worked for a number of established artist such as sculptor, Anotine Boudelle, and architecture Frank Lloyd Wright. However, it was her encounter with Mexican Muralist, Diego Rivera, and painter Frida Kahlo that solidified Bloch artistic style. Bloch became a closed friend of the couple, as well as, the chief photographer of the Rockefeller Center mural Diego Rivera was working on in New York before it was destroyed. In addition to her photographs, Bloch was a Fresco muralist for the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress...
Silver Gelatin