Contacts is an exhibition of scarce and never-before-seen contact sheets by some of the world’s greatest music photographers at the Lucy Bell Gallery.
In June 1977,Bob Marley took a day off from the European leg of his Exodus tour to visit the photographer Allan Ballard at his studio in Primrose Hill, north London. Marley was said to dislike studio-based shoots and only did a couple in his lifetime, or but on that day Ballard found him in playful mood,willing to strike a pose.
Today most of the images we see of Marley come from the same few photographs, with the singer looking composed, and eyes closed,deific. Those three or four shots are the basis for almost every mural, album cover and student poster of him – but accomplish minute to reveal the person.
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Source: guardian.co.uk