Music Box: Photographing the All-Time Greats

Music and photography have always shared a special relationshipwhen an iconic musician is portrayed by a first-rate photographer, the result is often transformative and transcendent, and a classic pop culture image is born. Music Box gathers more than 340 such legendary photographs of musicianscovering the stars of jazz, blues, rock and roll, soul, and all of their contemporary offshoots.Music Box is arranged in thematic chapters that look at the music scene from a witty and fresh perspective, collecting photographs such as Philippe Halsmans seminal portrait of Louis Armstrong, Jim Marshalls vision of Jimi Hendrix kneeling over his burning guitar, Annie Leibovitzs anthemic shot of Bruce Springsteen leaping in front of the American flag, and many more. It is an amazing collection of memorable photographs in an irresistible package.