Kevin Cummins has an international reputation as one of the world’s leading photographers and is famed for his iconic portraits of musicians including Ian Curtis, Bowie, The Smiths, Iggy Pop, Bjork, Debbie Harry, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Patti Smith and Oasis. These photographs have appeared on magazine covers and in galleries and museums worldwide, including Brooklyn Museum, Sydney Opera House, and the Pace Gallery, His work is included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, V&A Museum and Manchester City Art Gallery. Kevin had a 20-year association with the NME, where he created many of the best-known images in modern music history. From the acting world he’s photographed Helen Mirren, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Graham, Gary Oldman, and Richard E. Grant. His work has appeared on over 500 magazine covers and he’s published many books documenting much of his own work with his latest, Oasis The Masterplan, being his sixteenth. It’s out in April but you can pre-order it now. It documents twelve months of seismic change at the start of their career through the photographs he took that cemented the identity of Oasis and helped to define the band. You can buy the book, here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/oasis-the-masterplan/kevin-cummins/9781788405683
Kevin Cummins is our guest in episode 478 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Buy Oasis The Masterplan by Kevin Cummins, here - https://www.waterstones.com/book/oasis-the-masterplan/kevin-cummins/9781788405683
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