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Rock's power women celebrated in new exhibition
Mon Jul 8, 1:43 PM ET
By John Joseph
LONDON (Reuters) - The rock world's top 20 female icons are celebrated
in a photographic exhibition opening at Britain's National Portrait
Gallery Monday.
The exhibition, "She Bop," was inspired by former music journalist Lucy
O'Brien's book "She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock,
Pop and Soul."
Exhibits range from rock chick Chrissie Hynde to soul diva Dusty
Springfield and disco queen Madonna ( news - web sites).
"Female artists haven't been given the recognition that they've deserved
and I felt there was a whole history of women to be written to chart how
big a part women have played in popular music," says O'Brien of her book
and the exhibition.
"Images of women usually portray them as pretty or good looking. These
photographs are different in that they show the charisma and power of the
singers," adds the author, who used to work for British music newspaper
New Musical Express.
The portraits -- "of singers on the frontline, who demand to be seen and
heard," says O'Brien -- were taken by noted music photographers such as
Jill Furmovosky, Pennie Smith, Val Wilmer, Caroline Coon, Gered Mankovitz
and Eric Watson.
Furmovosky's pictures include Hynde, Joan Armatrading, Icelandic chanteuse
Bjork and the Canadian k.d Lang, who is as well known for her outspoken
lesbianism as for her soaring voice, while photographer Smith has
collaborated with Debbie Harry.
Running to November 3, the exhibition opens with the 1960s, a decade that
unearthed ex-convent schoolgirl Marianne Faithfull, the bare-footed
Eurovision-winning Sandie Shaw and Springfield.
"That was an era of innocence," says the display's curator Terence Pepper.
"Faithful posing wearing white socks and we all know what happened next,"
he adds of the husky-voiced singer who blazed a trail with a prodigious
lifestyle of bed-hopping -- she lived with the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger
for several years -- and drug abuse.
The 1970s saw the emergence of leather-clad Suzi Quatro, the soulful
Armatrading, the swirling voice and movements of Kate Bush and female
punk representatives Siousie Sioux and The Slits.
The 1980s are marked by Sade's cool and Annie Lennox in her post-Eurythmics
career. More recent portraits include P J Harvey, as well as "honorary
Brits" through marriage or residence, such as Madonna, Debbie Harry and
Hynde.
Lang sneaks in to the top 20 by virtue of her Commonwealth connections
says Pepper, who adds that, "We haven't done a proper countdown of women
singers. We might do that at the exhibition's end."
Reuters/Variety
Boolbar
>(Reuters) - The rock world's top 20 female icons are celebrated
> in a photographic exhibition opening at Britain's National Portrait
> Gallery Monday. . . . .
Does anyone know which Kate picture is used ?
Boolbar
Donny Bravo
fu...@boolbar.vispa.com (Boolbar) wrote:
> From: "guapo stick" <w...@smoe.org>
>
> >(Reuters) - The rock world's top 20 female icons are celebrated
> > in a photographic exhibition opening at Britain's National Portrait
> > Gallery Monday. . . . .
>
> Does anyone know which Kate picture is used ?
I'd guess the famous uncropped pink tank top shot.
- Donny