Ramones
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Museum-grade archival standards
The New York Underground
Bob Gruen — Danny Fields, Joey Ramone & David Johansen, CBGB, 1977
The Punk Catalog
Three architects of punk, caught at its doorway.
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Mick Rock’s personal vintage prints archive
Mick Rock — David Bowie, 1973
The Man Who Shot the Seventies
Unique vintage prints from Mick Rock’s personal archive, signed by the artist, and limited editions stamped by the estate.
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The Birth of Punk
Roberta Bayley — Ramones, CBGB, New York City, 1976
Ramones.
CBGB, 1976.
CBGB, 1976.
At the epicenter of New York punk.
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Signed and certified photographs
by artists who documented
an unrepeatable era in music history.
Each work is printed from the original negative or transparency and produced to museum-grade archival standards. Limited and open editions, authorized by the photographer.
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On Collecting Vintage
Printed in 1976 — Unique
A photograph is both an image and a physical object. For collectors, understanding how that object was made is essential. This is an original vintage gelatin silver print of the Ramones’ first album cover — printed by Roberta Bayley in 1976, the same year she made the picture against a brick wall in New York’s East Village. It is hand-titled and signed on the recto, with her copyright stamp and the handwritten notation “printed by RWB in 1976” on the verso, and it survives with its full margin on the original presentation board. Only one other vintage 1976 example is known. A later edition reproduces the image; a vintage print is the moment itself.
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Featured Artist: Ebet Roberts
Few photographers have documented music with the range, intimacy, and consistency of Ebet Roberts. Beginning with New York’s downtown scene in 1977, she went on to photograph defining artists across punk, rock, alternative music, jazz, and beyond. Her vast archive captures both the intensity of live performance and the unguarded moments surrounding it, creating an extraordinary visual history of modern music.
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Represented Artists
Photographers
Bob Gruen
Mick Rock
Roberta Bayley
Chris Stein
Allan Tannenbaum
Ebet Roberts
Lynn Goldsmith
Marcia Resnick
Ian Dickson
Daniel Kramer
Barrie Wentzell
Charlyn Zlotnik
Barry Schultz
Elliott Landy
George DuBose
Gijsbert Hanekroot
Godlis
Bobby Grossman
Jack Robinson
Sheila Rock
Mark Weiss
Martyn Goddard
Michael Grecco
Michael Zagaris
Paolo Brillo
Patrick Harbron
Richard Aaron
Rowland Scherman
David Corio
Timothy White
Curated Selection
Selected Works
Roberta Bayley
Ramones, First Album Cover Session, New York City, 1976
$1,500
Bob Gruen
John Lennon, Statue of Liberty, New York City, 1974
$450
Roberta Bayley
Ramones Performing at CBGB, New York City, 1976 — Original Cibachrome Print
Price on request
Rowland Scherman
Bob Dylan, Greatest Hits Cover, Washington, DC, 1965
$650
Ian Dickson
Tina Turner Singing into Microphone at NEC Arena, Birmingham, UK, 1990
$1,250
Bob Gruen
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, New York City, 1975
$1,200
Roberta Bayley
Ramones, Smiling, New York City, 1976
$1,400
Bob Gruen
Ramones, CBGB, New York City, 1975
$1,200
Ebet Roberts
Prince, New York City, 1981
$1,000
Ebet Roberts
Prince, 1984
$1,000
Ebet Roberts
Patti Smith, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 1978
$1,000
Ebet Roberts
Patti Smith, New York City, 1978
$1,000
As Seen In
Press
“Rock photography pioneer Bob Gruen resuscitates 1970s New York — his prints transcend the genre and enter the realm of art.”
Vanity Fair
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“For more than half a century, boxes of vintage prints by Mick Rock — “the man who shot the seventies” — remained sealed and unseen. Today, they resurface for the first time, offering an intimate view of the photographer who shaped the visual identity of rock music.”
L'Oeil de la Photographie
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“Legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen's new exhibition will take your breath away.”
A Rabbit's Foot
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“Through an extraordinary private collection of vintage images, Bob Dylan’s mark on music photography is revealed at Paris Photo with The Music Photo Gallery.”
Les Echos
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“Sebastián Alderete created The Music Photo Gallery, representing and exhibiting some of music’s most iconic photographers.”
Noticias
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“An Argentine gallerist preserves thirty photographs taken in New York in 1964, the year the great singer-songwriter emerged, revealing the story behind this precious legacy.”
La Nación
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“Bob Gruen looks back on a life in music photography, where rock and roll, personal freedom, and the rare authority of vintage prints converge.”
L'Oeil de la Photographie
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“Bob Gruen’s original 1970s prints return to the walls, reviving a landmark exhibition that helped establish music photography as fine art.”
L'Oeil de la Photographie
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“Daniel Kramer’s unique 1964–65 vintage prints preserve Bob Dylan’s transformation and an irreplaceable chapter in the history of music photography.”
L'Oeil de la Photographie
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