(So in addition to pictures of hippies dancing in fields, in this exhibition, there are shots of mosh pits and stage diving.)ĭuring the pandemic, with the encouragement and curation of his daughter Ricki, he created a Instagram page, That led to a coffee table book, “RetroBlakesberg: Volume One: The Film Archives,” that was published in September - with a foreword by Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, and an introduction by Michael Franti (both were photo subjects of his who became close friends) - and now this exhibition, which is his first ever in a museum. And he has continued to be strongly connected to the world of the Grateful Dead and its offshoot bands.īut he also has branched out to capture memorable images of artists from the worlds of alternative-rock, grunge, hip-hop and more.
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He has remained a professional photographer ever since then, doing shoots for various publications as well as for the musicians themselves. Audience members at a Swans concert at the I-Beam nightclub in San Francisco in 1988.īlakesberg, a native of Clark, was published in print for the first time at the age of 16 (in the Grateful Dead-oriented magazine, Relix) and paid for one of his photos for the first time (by the New Jersey-based weekly newspaper, The Aquarian) at the age of 17.
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