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New Zealand Herald
"the only rock photographer to have shot album covers for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who."

"in the pre-MTV era went on to be a pioneer in producing music videos"

Pete Townshend said of the final results: "They look ready to put up in the National Gallery. Ethan is the civilised eye of an uncivilised art-form: rock 'n' roll."

CNN
"Ethan Russell first met the Beatles in early 1969. Photographs of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones production "Rock and Roll Circus" attracted the interest of Beatles consigliere Neil Aspinall, who invited Russell to Twickenham Studios, where the group was making Let It Be." Russell's photographs ended up on the cover and gatefold of the LP, the last the Beatles released. . . . Russell's photographs show four men trying to rescue their fading musical marriage."

The Sunday Times
"Russell, a scruffy 23-year-old Californian, hit it off with the singer, and from 1968 to ’72 was the Rolling Stones’ main photographer. One of his early sessions featured Brian Jones at his home, Cotchford Farm in Sussex, previously owned by A A Milne. Russell’s pictures of Jones, draped around a statue of Christopher Robin and provocatively waving a gun, encapsulate the troubled nature of the doomed guitarist, who was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool six months later. But it’s Russell’s photographs of the band on their 1969 US tour – most unseen until now – that provide the most compelling insight. Contrary to myth, it wasn’t all sex, drugs and rock’n’roll."

The San Francisco Chronicle
"Russell was one of only 16 people on the tour, including the band. With unprecedented access to the Rolling Stones, he captured photos that have become classics. Russell published "Let It Bleed" - a $650 opus that some have called the definitive Rolling Stones book; he's now released a condensed (and more affordable) version."

"Russell caught the Rolling Stones at a historic juncture. He took some of the last photos ever taken of Brian Jones, before the founding member was fired from the band. He photographed the Stones' free concert in Hyde Park that served as Jones' memorial after he was found drowned in his swimming pool. Russell joined a touring party of 16 for the Stones' tour of the United States in 1969, which ended with the disastrous free concert at Altamont Speedway. It was really the first big-time rock tour ever and the world in transition he captured disappeared almost immediately."

Christian Science Monitor
"Every once in a long while, one finds a book that wholly captures the mood and essence of an era. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is just such a book. Ethan Russell weaves a tapestry of prose . . ."

Philadelphia Inquirer
"In 1968, Ethan Russell, a lanky Californian fresh out of college, was living in a London flat, psychedelic posters on the wall, battered purple Beatle boots thrown in a corner, a Nikon camera on the table."

Los Angeles Times
Rosanne Cash's What We Really Need "Photographer-director Russell has concocted a weird, two-dimensional world of paintings for Cash to step into, singing one of her latest songs of woe and miscommunication. It's a visual effect that's been tried in videos many times before, but never quite to this successfully surreal an effect."