Herb Wise

People You’d Like to Know: Legendary Musicians Photographed by Herb Wise

Published by Omnibus

Dec 01, 2010 Web Exclusive By Frank Valish Bookmark and Share


People You'd Like to Know is a collection of photographs by Herb Wise, the rock/jazz/folk photographer who spent time documenting music festivals of the 1960s and '70s. The book is divided into categories—Portraits, Performance, Candid, and New Orleans—and features pictures of some of music's greats, including a pre-Traffic Steve Winwood, Joan Baez and Kris Kristofferson, Arlo Guthrie in 1967, and Transformer-era Lou Reed on stage in 1973. But for each "big" name, there are a half dozen that never reached household-recognized status. And this is where Wise's book truly comes to life, in the portraits and pictures of musicians who never hit the big time, those down-home purveyors of folk, jazz, and especially the New Orleans' music and culture that ends the book. It's in these loose, affecting portrayals that the music's true worth comes out, through generations, across genres, and over time. (www.omnibuspress.com)

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san iscsi
January 25th 2011
2:05am

And this is where Wise’s book truly comes to life, in the portraits and pictures of musicians who never hit the big time, those down-home purveyors of folk, jazz, and especially the New Orleans’ music and culture that ends the book.