Le jour de Noël 1977, les Sex Pistols jouent leur dernier concert au Royaume-Uni dans la boîte de nuit d'Ivanho, à Huddersfield. Le célèbre photographe de rock Kevin Cummins était le seul à avoir documenté l'événement, devenant ainsi témoin d'un des derniers concerts du groupe.
Réédition pour cet ouvrage culte paru en tirage limité en 2007 et qui retrace à travers les photos de Kevin Cummins la carrière du groupe Joy Division.
The definitive collection of the Joy Division photographs of Kevin Cummins, including interviews with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris.
The iconic images captured by Cummins - from snowy bridges and dark rehearsal rooms to electrifying live performances - helped to define Joy Division and cement their place in music history.
Originally published in an ultra-limited run of just 226 copies, Juvenes is a book with legendary status. Now comprehensively updated with new material and images that have never been published in a book before, this new edition will allow fans to own it for the first time.
Also containing insightful and moving essays from the band's family, contemporaries and fans including David Peace and Pat Nevin, Juvenes is a striking, poignant celebration of a truly special band.
Un portrait photographique de la Britpop, mettant en vedette les groupes les plus emblématiques du genre, avec de nombreuses images inédites. Prises par le célèbre Kevin Cummins, photographe en chef au NME pendant plus d'une décennie, les images de ce livre explorent l'ascension et la chute de la Cool Britannia. Les artistes présentés comprennent : Oasis, Blur, Suede, Pulp, Elastica, Supergrass, The Charlatans, Gene, Sleeper, Kula Shaker, Echobelly, The Bluetones et bien d'autres. Le titre est tiré de la célèbre chanson d'Oasis, Champagne Supernova.
*** Contains never-before-seen images. Foreword by Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate. From chaotic early gigs to their final years, NME photographer Kevin Cummins provides a definitive, unique perspective on cult favourites The Fall. In this stunning visual history spanning four decades, discover how and why they emerged as one of the most innovative, boundary-breaking bands in modern music. With interviews and essays from the band''s members and devotees, as well as never-before-seen images from Cummins'' archive, this is the ultimate visual companion to The Fall.
Kevin Cummins a suivi Morrissey dans sa transition, lors de son départ du groupe The Smiths pour commencer une carrière solo. Des centaines de photographies documentent des performances chaotiques, tout comme des sessions intimes ou des photos volées backstages, lors des tournées autour du monde. Dix ans de photographie sont réunis dans ce livre, qui se termine par une galerie de tatouages témoignant de l'impact de cet artiste sur le monde de la musique.
From the legendary Bowie gigs in the early 1970s, through to a poignant image taken outside his apartment in New York in 2016, Kevin Cummins has captured the many faces of Bowie, including previously unpublished material, and created a book that is essential for Bowie fans everywhere.
The career of celebrated pop photographer Kevin Cummins began on 29th June 1973 when as a 19-year-old photography student he photographed David Bowie. That image is now in the renowned photography collection of the V&A Museum and marked the beginning Kevin Cummins' four-decade-long visual chronicle of David Bowie's remarkable career. David Bowie Mixing Memory & Desire includes some of the best portraits of Bowie ever taken and contains extensive never-before-published imagery of David Bowie from Kevin Cummins' archive, making this a must-have visual treat for Bowie fans everywhere.