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Tim Buckley
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed American singer and songwriter Tim Buckley in his NYC studio in November, 1968. At the time, he had released two records and was recording his third. Vogue called him the “found poet of new folk.” Tim Buckley is the biological father of Jeff Buckley...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
The Bee Gees
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed Australian pop/rock group the Bee Gees in August, 1968. By this time, the Gibb Brothers and band had released three albums and had ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
John Lennon
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Beatles announced the formation of their record label, Apple Records, at a press conference at the Americana Hotel in New York in May, 1968. This photograph of John Lennon...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Paul McCartney
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Beatles announced the formation of their record label, Apple Records, at a press conference at the Americana Hotel in New York in May, 1968. This photograph of Paul McCartney...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Chet Atkins at the Grand Ole Opry
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed Chet Atkins on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1958. He was in town to shoot the cover photographs for the Everly Brothers...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Sly Stone at Soul Together
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden on June 28, 1968 featured a roster of Atlantic recording artists, all of whom donated their time. Proceeds benefitted the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund. The acts included Aretha Franklin, Sonny and Cher, King Curtis, Joe Tex, Sam and Dave, The Rascals, and Sly Stone...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Jimi Hendrix at Soul Together
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden on June 28, 1968 featured a roster of Atlantic recording artists, all of whom donated their time. Proceeds benefitted the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund. While Jimi Hendrix did not perform, he came on stage to make a donation. The acts included Aretha Franklin, Sonny and Cher, King Curtis, Joe Tex, Sam and Dave, The Rascals, and Sly Stone...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Sam and Dave Horns Section
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
R&B and Soul act Sam and Dave perform during the Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden in June, 1968. They are known for their powerhouse soul hits like "Soul Man" and "Hold...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Sam and Dave at Madison Square Garden
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
R&B and Soul act Sam and Dave perform during the Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden in June, 1968. The duo are known for their powerh...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Harry's Loans
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Signage on Beale Street in Memphis, TN in 1965.
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper
Edition of 25
Estate signed and stamped
14" x 21" print on 20" x 24" paper
We ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
1960s Beale Street
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Legendary Beale Street in 1965. Now a popular tourist area with bars, restaurants, and music halls, Beale Street in 1965 was still open to vehicle traffic and was an important area f...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Handy Park (Beale Street)
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Handy Park on Beale Street in Memphis, TN is named for musician and composer W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues."
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper
Edition of 2...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Veruschka in Mimi di Niscemi
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Supermodel Veruschka von Lehndorff, a favorite of Diana Vreeland, is pictured here in an electric light-up collier necklace by jewelry designer Mimi di Niscemi...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Diana Ross at Grand Central Station
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Singer Diana Ross from a fashion shoot in Grand Central Station, New York City in August 1968. Ross had experienced huge success as the lead singer of the Supremes. The year after th...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Henri Langlois
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Studio portrait of Turkish-born film archivist Henri Langlois from January, 1969. Langlois was co-founder and director of the Cinémathèque Française and has been credited with being ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Roberta Flack
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Roberta Flack, vocal jazz and soul singer photographed in November, 1969. This photograph was taken after her first release “First Take” which contained ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Roberta Flack
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Roberta Flack, vocal jazz and soul singer photographed in November, 1969. This photograph was taken after her first release “First Take” which contained ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Lauren Hutton
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Actress and model Lauren Hutton appears in thigh high patent leather boots in this fashion shoot for Vogue in 1972.
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Gale...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Lily Tomlin as "Ernestine"
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Legendary comedian Lily Tomlin appears in character as telephone operator "Ernestine," a recurring character on the sketch comedy television show "L...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Sam and Dave "Horns High"
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
R&B and Soul act Sam and Dave perform during the Soul Together concert at Madison Square Garden in June, 1968. The concert featured a roster of Atlantic recording artists, all of who...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Leonard Cohen
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Leonard Cohen (b.1934), Canadian songwriter, folk singer, poet, novelist, and philosopher, came from a middle-class Jewish home in Westmount, Montreal, his father a successful clothing-store owner. Cohen would go on to study at McGill University and then Columbia University. He published his first book of poetry in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. This photograph was taken by Jack Robinson on August 9, 1967 a month after Cohen’s appearance at the Newport Folk Festival...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Joni Mitchell
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Joni Mitchell (b.1943) was born Roberta Joan Anderson in Alberta. She began playing guitar and singing in clubs in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewa...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Tina Turner on Stage
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Tina Turner (b.1939), born as Anna Mae Bullock, began singing professionally as a teenager after meeting the established performer Ike Turner (1931–2007). ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Tina Turner
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
A colorized version of this image was featured on The Last Shadow Puppets' album "Everything You've Come to Expect," which won the 'Best Art Vinyl 2016" prize for album cover art.
Tina Turner (b.1939), born as Anna Mae Bullock, began singing professionally as a teenager after meeting the established performer Ike Turner...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Jack Nicholson
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Nicholson (b.1937) was acting in low-budget films for years before his breakthrough in Easy Rider (1969), directed by Dennis Hopper. This photogra...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Tina Turner
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Tina Turner (b.1939), born as Anna Mae Bullock, began singing professionally as a teenager after meeting the established performer Ike Turner (1931–2007). ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Jack Nicholson
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Nicholson (b.1937) was acting in low-budget films for years before his breakthrough in Easy Rider (1969), directed by Dennis Hopper. This photogra...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Have a Coke
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack snapped this photo of stacked Coca-Cola bottles in their painted wooden crates in the mid 1960s. He loved photographing bright colors and patterns...
Category
1960s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Prism
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack took this photograph of a model distorted through a prism in the early 1960s. In his personal work, he enjoyed shooting the human body from unexpected angles, the images at time...
Category
1960s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Daisy Theater
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Now called the "Old" Daisy, The Daisy Theater opened on the iconic Beale Street in Memphis, TN in 1913. Jack photographed the Daisy during a visit with his parents in 1965. It still ...
Category
1960s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Barber Shop Reflection
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
A man checks himself out in the reflection of a barber shop window in New York in the mid 1960s.
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper
Edit...
Category
1960s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Suzy Parker and Great Danes
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The red-headed Suzy Parker (1932–2003), the highest paid and most famous American model in the fifties, was the fourth of four daughters from San Antonio, ...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Joni Mitchell
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Joni Mitchell (b.1943) was born Roberta Joan Anderson in Alberta. She began playing guitar and singing in clubs in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewa...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Tom Wolfe
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Tom Wolfe (b.1931), from Richmond, Virginia, spurned academic life after receiving his Yale doctorate to become a reporter, ultimately at the New York Herald Tribune. He originated New Journalism, a staccato-adjective-laden style that reinvented subordinate clauses when writing a feature for Esquire on custom cars...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Cher
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed Sonny and Cher for a “Vogue’s Own Boutique” feature in 1967, after the duo had already released their first hits “I Got You Babe,”and “The Beat Goes On.” Sonny & Cher rebranded themselves in the 1970s, starring in a hit television variety series, but split in 1975. Cher went on to a successful career as a solo performer and actress and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Moonstruck (1987). Sonny went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Dominique Sanda
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
French actress Dominique Sanda was only 19 when this photograph was taken in October, 1970, the same month her film “The Conformist” was released in Ita...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Show Me Your Pontiac
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack photographed this Mardi Gras reveler serving up some serious attitude on the hood of a Pontiac in 1954.
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie Baryta paper
Edition of 25
Estat...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Gunga Den
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
This Mardi Gras image from New Orleans in 1954 shows partygoers as they pass The Gunga Den on Bourbon Street. The club was legendary - Truman Capote was often quoted that The Gunga ...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Masquerade at Dixie's
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
These Mardi Gras partiers in matching costumes are entering the front doors of Dixie's Bar of Music. Dixie's was a safe space for the gay community of the French Quarter at a time wh...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Girl Before a Mardi Gras
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
These Mardi Gras partiers are wearing impressive homemade masks inspired by Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror.
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galer...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Past Her Prime
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
This party girl appears to have over-imbibed and now takes a rest (or a snooze) on the steps at Dixie's Bar of Music during Mardi Gras, 1954.
Silver gelatin print on Ilford Galerie...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Tango Palace
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Tango Palace Ballroom was a dance club located at Broadway and 48th in New York City. Its neon lights and panels depicting couples dancing interested Jack, and he photographed th...
Category
1960s Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
The Velvet Underground
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed The Velvet Underground playing at the store Paraphernalia in March 1966. From left John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Lou Reed,and Maur...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
The Who Jump
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The Who, one of the greatest rock bands of all time, began in 1964 and, when photographed on June 5, 1969, had just released their landmark rock opera Tommy. In a “People Are Talking About …” feature of Vogue, Tommy was praised as “celebrating the quiet divinity of explosion”, seriously extending rock’s musical range. The Who were John Entwistle...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Melba Moore
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
The singer Melba Moore (b.1945) was born in Harlem, New York, to parents distinguished in music. In 1967, she began her performing career in the groundbreaking Broadway musical Hair...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
NYC Parking Meter
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson snapped this shot on the streets of New York City in the mid 1960s. Jack got his start behind the camera shooting scenes of his daily life in New Orleans. Once he becam...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Top Brass
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson took this photograph of the Burlington's 16" Top Brass billboard in the early 1960s. He did the product photography for the advertisement and was excited to see it in p...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Good Eats, No Nonsense
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Sadie Boehm and her sister ran a lunch counter in Jack's office building when he was a graphic artist for the Charles Dolce Ad Agency in New Orleans. Ser...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Telephone Booths
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack loved patterns, repeating images, and reflections. This bank of telephone booths caught his eye on a walk in the city in the mid-1960s.
Silver ...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
World's Fair 1964 Beetle
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack photographed this sleek, shiny Volkswagen Beetle with its NY 1964 World's Fair license plate in his New York City neighborhood. Jack loved the unusual view of everyday objects t...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Clint Eastwood
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack Robinson photographed Eastwood on July 10, 1969 for a “Men in Vogue” feature, Paint Your Wagon, Eastwood’s only musical, was about to be released. In the year previous, just to show his prodigious output and his versatility, Eastwood had released three movies, Hang ’Em High, a western, Coogan’s Bluff, a police mystery, and Where Eagles Dare, a WWII thriller. In the following year, he would begin filming his first role from the director’s chair, Play Misty for Me...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Dior Salon
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack photographed models posing in haute couture designs at the Christian Dior Salon in 1959. Christian Dior had passed away in 1957, and his chosen successor, Yves Saint Laurent, wa...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Carrie Donovan
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Carrie Donovan (1928–2001) photographed shortly after joining Diana Vreeland’s staff at Vogue. A graduate of Parsons in 1950, Donovan had previously worked for The New York Times be...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Iggy Pop
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Iggy Pop (b.1947), the”Godfather of Punk,” was born as James Newell Osterberg in Michigan. He started out as a high school drummer and one of his bands was The Iguanas, hence his stage name. Inspired by the performing antics of Jim Morrison, Iggy expanded on them with his group The Stooges...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Elton John
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
When Jack Robinson photographed him on November 6, 1970, the twenty-three year old Elton John had become internationally known just that year. Just a month before, he had released his third album, Tumbleweed Connection. Clearly, even by this time his trademark appearance— the baby-face framed by oversize eyeglasses, and multi-colored garb— was already established. The feature in Vogue on January 1, 1971 points out the role of Elton in the shift from electric guitar to piano-based music, noting his recent show piano-to-piano with Leon Russell...
Category
1970s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Joni Mitchell
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Photographed by Jack Robinson on November 20, 1968, Joni Mitchell had just released her first album and was about to appear in a concert at Carnegie Hall...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Leonard Cohen
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Leonard Cohen (b.1934), Canadian songwriter, folk singer, poet, novelist, and philosopher, came from a middle-class Jewish home in Westmount, Montreal, his father a successful clothing-store owner. Cohen would go on to study at McGill University and then Columbia University. He published his first book of poetry in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. This photograph was taken by Jack Robinson on August 9, 1967 a month after Cohen’s appearance at the Newport Folk Festival...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Helmut Berger
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Helmut Berger (b.1944) was photographed by Jack Robinson for Vogue magazine on December 10, 1969 and a “People Are Talking About …” feature of the magazi...
Category
1960s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Fried Eggs and Chili
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack took this photograph through a store window on Canal Street in New Orleans in the early 1950s. We like to imagine the man is counting out his 30 cents for two fried eggs...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Glow on Milk
By Jack Robinson
Located in Memphis, TN
Jack captured this delivery truck with its "Glow on Milk" ad on its route down Canal Street in early 1950s New Orleans. This would have been right outside his office building at the ...
Category
1950s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
