EXCITING NEWS! We’ll be hosting a one-off exhibition of iconic 1970s and 80s rock era photos in our Limpsfield village gallery, running from 1st November to 1st December 2024.
This will be an amazing exhibition of original photos by celebrated photographers, such as photographer, writer and rock music manager, Leee Black Childers, from an exciting, groundbreaking and rule-breaking era of rock, rock stars were changing the world!
Talks about some of these artists will be advertised when confirmed.
The gallery will be open 10am to 3pm Tuesdays to Saturdays.
Leee Black Childers
Leee Black Childers (July 24, 1945 – April 6, 2014) was an American photographer, writer and rock music manager, who “recorded the legacy of a theatrical cross over between rock music and gay culture.”
In the early 1970s, Childers was a stage manager and photographer for Andy Warhol’s only stage production, Pork, directed by Tony Ingrassia at the Roundhouse in London. His photographs from the production were part of the exhibit, “Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Warhol’s Work,” at the Andy Warhol Museum in 2009.
Childers was also the stage manager for Jackie Curtis’s play “Femme Fatale” in 1970. He was an assistant to Warhol at the Factory between 1982 and 1984, and took photographs of visiting celebrities, counter-cultural figures and musicians, particularly of punk rock and new wave music stars, such as Ruby Lynn Reyner, Debbie Harry, Jayne County, and the Sex Pistols.
He worked as a tour manager for David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Mott the Hoople, among others. David Bowie was a fan of Andy Warhol’s work, and because of that he hired several of the people that were involved in the production of Pork, which included: Leee Black Childers, Cherry Vanilla, and Tony Zanetta.
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