Exhibition PremieresSaturday, October 19th • 9 PMThis Is Noteworthy16 South Main StreetWater Valley, Mississippi(20 miles from Oxford, MS) Advance viewing and meet the photographer at 5:30 PM for TIN Patrons Over 50 Giclée prints on exhibit spanning 5 decades of Alan Messer’s photography.Prints of these images and many others are also available for purchase here in the online shop. Presented …
Exhibit: Royal Albert Hall / May 10 – June 3
I am delighted to announce that I have an exhibition of my photographs at the Royal Albert Hall in London From Friday May 10 – Monday June 3 in the Ground Floor Corridor. The show is in conjunction with a Live Nation Weekend Country Festival, “Highways” that will hang longer with access to ticket holders of other shows. There is …
JUNE – The Documentary
The photograph above was taken when I attended the preview of JUNE a new film about June Carter Cash at Nashville’s Woolworth Theatre. The film includes many of my photographs over 2 decades and loads of my video footage from mainly the Press On recording sessions and my time in Jamaica shooting the album cover. This on-screen picture is my …
COUNTRY MUSIC a Film by Ken Burns
This and several other of my photographs are featured in Ken Burns series, COUNTRY MUSIC, currently broadcast on PBS (USA) and in the companion book. This is one of my first Nashville photographs taken during FanFair at a lunchtime RCA Records reception and award presentation the year before I moved here from London. Waylon was a likable “outlaw” and the …
Interview with Alan Messer: The Photocatalysis of Music
Interview by Michael Limnios Alan Messer left school at sixteen to become a professional photographer in London. He shot his first magazine cover a few days later (Manfred Mann promoting “The Mighty Quinn”), the second, published 1968, was the Beatles promoting the Yellow Submarine film. Alan insatiably photographed the British rock and pop scene, working from Dezo Hoffmann’s studio, first …
Magazine Cover: Uncut (UK)
Alan’s photo of Keith Richards was featured on the cover of Issue 80 of Uncut Magazine in the UK.
Ray Gun Magazine – Dec/Jan 1999
Photos by Alan Messer featured in the best-selling issue of Ray Gun Magazine. Designed by David Carson.
Beach Culture Magazine by David Carson
This photograph of Lyle Lovett’s feet was shot purposefully by me using an SX70 Polaroid,as I was making a collage, somewhat influenced by David Hockney. At the time (1990) I was designing and screenprinting the American Original series for CBS Nashville at my Broadway studio working with film overlays, Swan Morton scalpels, rulers, inks, acetone paint thinners, etc., David Carson …