Music Icons by Barrie Wentzell

Legendary music photographer Barrie Wentzell made 50 limited edition, archival silver print sets in 1993. Each limited edition has 100 of his best music photos from the 1960s and 1970s.

• Archival Silver Gelatin print on double weight glossy stock.
• Hand signed and numbered on back, with embossed seal and number on front.
• Numbered sticker on back.
• 16" wide x 20" tall.

About Barrie Wentzel:
During the early 1960’s, British photographer Barrie Wentzell began diversifying into the worlds of fashion, music and advertising. In 1965 he had a chance encounter with the young Diana Ross. The image he made of this yet-to-be global super-star became a riveting front cover of The Melody Maker, England’s most renowned music publication, which caught the attention of Bob Houston, the assistant editor at the time. Houston was to contact Barrie and sign him on as exclusive chief photographer for the paper.

Barrie went on to shoot for the Melody Maker from 1965 until 1975, one of the most important decades in the history of popular music, photographing many unknown musicians who would later become legends and household names.

Celebrated artists such as Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, and Bob Dylan, and rock and roll icons such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and countless more all have their place in Barrie Wentzell’s vast archive.

Barrie continues to contribute his work to exhibitions, museums, private collections, books, CD’s and DVD’s worldwide and licenses reproduction rights for his images to the media. He is currently working on a book of his own to coincide with a documentary film and international exhibition. Barrie lives and works in Toronto, Canada.