Music photographs have traditionally been known through reproduction: Magazines, album covers, posters and newly made digital prints. The Music Photo Gallery has championed vintage gelatine-silver prints, made close to the time the negative was exposed. There is something magical knowing that the light that bounced off these musical “stars” has bounced back to us via the prints.

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Gail Buckland, former curator of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, is an author, professor and curator. She is the author and curator of “Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955-Present” which opened at the Brooklyn Museum in 2009 and traveled to numerous art museums.​