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Mick Jagger: Young In The 60s

Portraits of Mick Jagger taken in the 1960s will form a new display at the National Portrait Gallery from 3 May – 27 November 2011. Documenting the singer’s early rise to become one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the era the display will coincide with the publication of Mick Jagger: The Photobook by Thames & Hudson.

© Colin Jones (1967)

© Gered Mankowitz (1966)

© David Wedgbury (1964)

Press Release from the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK.

Portraits of Mick Jagger taken in the 1960s will form a new display at the National Portrait Gallery from 3 May – 27 November 2011. Documenting the singer’s early rise to become one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the era the display will coincide with the publication of Mick Jagger: The Photobook by Thames & Hudson.

Defining images of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones from the Gallery’s Collection, shown alongside a selection of new acquisitions, will together chart the first decade of the singer’s career. The Gallery’s holdings of portraits of the group have built up over the last forty years, starting with a gift in 1972 from Cecil Beaton of his portrait of Jagger taken in Morocco in 1967. New acquisitions in the display include portraits of the singer by Gered Mankowitz, including one with his prized Aston Martin DB6, and another from 1968 that shows the influence of pop art and psychedelia on Jagger’s clothes and surroundings. Mankowitz was just eighteen when he became the official photographer for the band, and his legendary cover images include for 'Out Of Our Heads' (1965) and 'Between The Buttons' (1967).

The display will include an image from the Rolling Stones’s first official photo shoot by Philip Townsend. Peter Stone’s reportage photograph of a Rolling Stones press call in Green Park will also be on show providing a visual roll call of leading photographers of the time such as Fiona Adams, Ron Falloon, and Monty Fresco. Other key images are a previously unexhibited colour photograph by Colin Jones (1967), Michael Cooper’s study of the Rolling Stones for the cover of their album 'Their Satanic Majesties Request' (1967) and Michael Joseph’s supremely decadent image of the group posing with a large menagerie of animals for the gatefold of their album 'Beggar’s Banquet' (1968). The Gallery’s collection of photographs from the period has been recently enhanced by acquisitions arising from its 'Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed', exhibition in 2010.

The display 'Mick Jagger: Young In The 60s' has been inspired by the interest generated by a major survey of portraits of Jagger from 1964 to 2008 shown at Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie 2010, and the accompanying publication compiled by the festival’s Director, François Hebel.

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Gered Mankowitz becomes the official photographer for the band at 18 years old? Nice to be able to note that on a resume. Young Mick was very photogenic.

Ginda wrote on Apr 25^th, 2011 at 6:44pm:

Gered Mankowitz becomes the official photographer for the band at 18 years old? Nice to be able to note that on a resume. Young Mick was very photogenic.

He's still very photogenic! He's only gotten sexier with age!

No other man will ever wear makeup as well as Mick Jagger. That shot from 1973 proves my point. Great photos.

No way that shot was from 1987

Sir Mick Jagger joins the establishment in the National Portrait Gallery

Mick Jagger, the bad boy of rock and roll, is finally joining the establishment as his portrait is hung at the National Portrait Gallery.

Mick Jagger (left) in 1967 photographed by Colin Jones and (right) in 1966 photographed by Gered Mankowitz
Photo: Colin Jones/Bowstir/Mankowitz.com

By Rebecca Lefort 01 May 2011

Staring into the camera with all the attitude of a young rebel, and surrounded by the other Stones on Tin Pan Alley, this is Sir Mick Jagger at the height of his rock'n'roll pomp.

More than 40 years later he is to have his place in the establishment cemented by being the subject of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Twelve photographs taken of the Rolling Stones frontman in the 1960s will go on display from Tuesday.

The pictures include a selection of images taken by the band's first official photographer, Gered Mankowitz.

The exhibition, Mick Jagger: Young in the 60s, also features photographs taken by society photographer Cecil Beaton, who shot Jagger in Morocco in 1967; Colin Jones, who captured a previously-unseen picture of Jagger in a vibrant military-style jacket; and Philip Townsend, whose photos were credited with providing an insight into the culture of the "swinging Sixties".

Jagger, now 67, has previously been the subject of works in the gallery but has never before been the subject of an entire exhibition.

Terence Pepper, the National Portrait Gallery's curator of photographs, said: "The display is a visual record of Jagger's early career, on his way to becoming one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the era."

The free exhibition, which runs until November, is timed to coincide with the publication of Mick Jagger: The Photobook, which contains 70 photos spanning Jagger's 50-year career.

The Telegraph

Twelve photos ain't much...

Ship that exhibition to Seattle and I'll be there.

It's kind of funny to read the opening line. The Stones have been members of the establishment for quite some time.

I went to see the exhibition in Arles (France ) arizojp had posted many pics here I guess .
http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1275344,page=1

Mick Jagger: rock peacock

A new book showcases the dynamic and enduring style of stage legend Mick Jagger.

BY David Nicholls | 14 May 2011

Jagger in London in 1987. Photo: Herb Ritts

Few could argue that Mick Jagger is one of life's great peacocks - and not in the way that Keith Richards so unkindly suggested in his autobiography Life last year.

Rather, the rock god has spent nearly 50 years posing, pouting and prancing around, pushing the boundaries of what's socially permissible while challenging traditional ideas of what it is to be manly. Fur coats? Crop tops? A smokey eye? Tick, tick and tick.

In pictures: Mick Jagger, style icon

Much of this has been captured on film, which has been brought together by photography expert François Hébel in Mick Jagger: The Photobook. Here we see the extravagantly-lipped Rolling Stones frontman captured in myriad scenarios by the great and the good of the photography world, from Cecil Beaton to Annie Leibovitz.

The book not only shows him off as the performer and exhibitionist that he is however, it also documents Jagger's role as a true style icon. Between the Ossie Clarke jumpsuits of the early 1970s and unfortunate shampoo-and-set hairdos of the early 1990s, the musician's rich catalogue of looks provides some golden nuggets of inspiration.

In 1968 he puckers up in a knee length faux fur coat for the famed rock photographer Gered Mankowitz. Two years later he stares, moon-eye, into Roger Whitaker's fish eye lens on the set of Ned Kelly (1970): the look is Amish settler meets Abraham Lincoln. By the 1992 the Scottish photographer Albert Watson morphed Jagger into a leopard.

What is clear is that Jagger has always taken chances when it comes to what he wears. And if there is a single fashion message to be gleaned from the book, it's that many of us could follow his lead on this point.

Bar a short introduction there's barely a word in this monograph because really - the pictures say it all. Thames & Hudson, £14.95.

Sunday Telegraph

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