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 ETHAN ALLEN RUSSELL  

 Author/Photographer/Director 

 Early Life 

Ethan Allen Russell(born November 26, 1945, Mt. Kisco, New York) is an author, photographer, and director mostly of musicians. He is best known for his work with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. The son of Charles Howland Russell and Alice Allen Russell, he is the great grandson of Florence Jaffray Harriman, the great grandson of Henry Codman Potter, the grandson of Henry Potter Russell and Ethel Harriman Russell (paternal) and Horace Bigelow Allen and Alice Gwynne (maternal) He has four siblings: brother Jeremy Russell (1944-2005 ) Linda Russell Matson, (1947-), and Adam Henry Russell  (1955-2009). His godfather is Cole Porter.

His family moved to Manhattan In 19520, then in 1952 to San Francisco. Russell attended high school at The Cate School outside of Santa Barbara, California, then the University of California at Davis, where he majored in English and Art. He was first introduced and became interested in photography at Davis, but did not work professionally until 1968 when he traveled to England

 Career 

In 1968, Russell moved to London with aspirations of becoming a writer, working (and photographing) in a home for autistic children part time. Within a few years, he was regarded as one of the foremost rock photographers in the world, and the only photographer to have shot album covers of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, receiving a Grammy nomination for his work on The Who’s Quadrophenia. His roster of subjects also includes Jerry Lee Lewis, Phil Everly, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, The Moody Blues, Cream, Traffic, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, John Hiatt, Rickie Lee Jones, Audioslave, and Rosanne Cash.

In 1978 Russell shifted his focus to film and video, becoming one of the pioneers of music video - but leaving a cache of iconoclastic photographs largely unseen for nearly 30 years. He produced and directed films with Leon Redbone, Rickie Lee Jones, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, kd lang, Rosanne Cash, Hank Williams, Jr. and Randy Travis and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In the 1990’s Russell garnered his second Grammy nomination for the video "There's A Tear In My Beer" (LINK) with Hank Williams, Jr. He also became an award winning creative director and the author of two books, Dear Mr. Fantasy (Houghton Mifflin 1985) and LET IT BLEED: The Rolling Stones 1969 U.S. Tour (Collector's Edition Rhino Entertainment, 2007. Trade Edition: Springboard Press 2009). Publication of the epic LET IT BLEED spawned the resurgence of Russell's still photography, beginning with an exhibition directly related to the book that premiered at Digital Domain in Los Angeles in 2005. The exhibition has since traveled to New York, London, Paris, Rotterdam, San Francisco, San Diego and Australia.

Bibliography

MR. FANTASY: Diary of a Decade: Our Time and Rock and Roll

LET IT BLEED: The Rolling Stones 1969 Tour

References

http://www.rollingstones.com/photo-gallery/ethan-russell-us-tour-72

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/10/random-excellence-ethan-russell.html

http://www.sfae.com/index.php?action=gallery&status=show_artist&ID=6

http://blog.photoshelter.com/2010/03/history-rocknroll-ethan-russell.html

http://www.crushermagazine.com/features8_08/featethan_russell.htm

http://www.rockandrollphoto.com/ethan_russell.html

http://www.nemsworld.com/beatles/tit/tit.htm

http://www.lipulse.com/art-music/article/naked-eye-uncut-interview-with-ethan-russell/

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1710013,00.html

http://www.proud.co.uk/Photographer-Ethan-Russell_593.aspx

External Links

http://www.ethanrussell.com

http://www.letitbleedbook.com

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2011240/

http://www.facebook.com/people/Ethan-Russell/655046590#!/ethanrussellphotographs?ref=ts

http://twitter.com/ethan_russell

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ethan-russell