WELCOME TO SNAP GALLERIES
At Snap we celebrate all aspects of popular culture, with a deep specialism in iconic music photography.
Snap is a commercial retail music photography gallery, and everything you see is for sale.
Our customers are a global group of discerning collectors, art lovers, pop culture junkies and music aficionados who are looking for something special to hang in their homes and offices, and we ship regularly to clients in the UK, the US, Europe and the Far East. Are we the best in the world at what we do? You be the judge.
We sells limited edition photographs by the master practitioners of the genre, and through our publishing imprint, Ormond Yard Press, we release a carefully curated series of limited edition large-format photography books.
The Vermeer Treasury
Our latest offering is something a little different to our usual fare, focusing as it does on the collected works of Dutch master painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-75).
I am really excited about this new component to our business, which involves presenting public domain art in a stunning new format.
Yes, The Vermeer Treasury is for sale, but there’s more to it than that — it acts as a showcase for the kind of bespoke collectors cabinet we can build just for you, centred on your chosen passion. We have already started work on our next cabinet, The Brush and The Blade: The Caravaggio Treasury, but that’s for another day.
This has been a very personal project for me, drawing on many of my interests beyond the traditional pop culture material we usually offer through the gallery. But hey—where’s the fun if you just stay in your lane?
Bruce Springsteen by Eric Meola
We’ll Walk in the Sun (1975)
Signed limited editions
This portrait of Bruce Springsteen was taken in June 1975 outside Eric Meola’s Manhattan Studio.
This is one of a number of portraits of Bruce Springsteen included in the first ever exhibition of work from Eric Meola’s Born to Run sessions which we hosted at the gallery.
Signed limited edition photographs are available to own in a choice of two physical sizes.
Bruce Springsteen by Eric Meola
Meeting Across The River (1975)
Signed limited editions
Here’s another beautiful portrait of Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons taken by Eric Meola on the day of his iconic Born to Run shoot.
You can view the whole Born To Run collection here.
Signed limited edition photographs are available to purchase in a choice of physical sizes.
FROM OUR DAVID BOWIE 1977 IGGY POP EXHIBITION
Featured items by Masayoshi Sukita
We celebrated Sukita-san’s photographs of Bowie-san with a broad retrospective in 2013. Later, in an exhibition first shown in our Leamington Spa space, we turned the spotlight on 1977, when Sukita-san photographed David Bowie and Iggy Pop in what proved to be a pivotal year in both their careers. View the exhibition here.
The Who (1968) by Art Kane
“The Who. They were great, I loved these guys. For me they were like cute little ruffians. They made me think of Dickens, of Oliver Twist, Fagin’s gang”. Art Kane
Knowing that John Entwistle and Pete Townshend wore jackets made from flags, Art Kane decided to wrap them in a Union Jack – actually two, sewn together for the session. Initially they worked in his Carnegie Hall studio shooting on a seamless white background, and subsequently Kane took the group to Morningside Park, near to NYC’s Columbia University. Here he had them pose sleeping, against the base of the Karl Schurz monument. He wanted to show them as both irreverent and lovable – in a devilish kind of way. This photograph, one of the most iconic images of the band, was used on the cover of The Kids Are Alright.
Estate authorised, archivally processed limited edition photographs are available to own in a range of physical sizes.
We the People (1961) by Art Kane
‘We the People’ was shot for Look magazine in 1961 for a story about the US constitution.
Art Kane gathered a group of friends together on a distant hillside, then had assistants hold an American flag directly in front him. Through perspective and depth of field, this created the impression that the the people were standing on top of the flag. Its concept, saturated colour and strong composition also reflect an ongoing passion for flags in this early ‘hit’ for Art Kane.
Estate authorised, archivally processed limited edition photographs are available to own in a range of physical sizes.
SNAPSHOT
Spotlight on a key piece for your collection
8 August, 1969. A Friday. The date of one of the most famous photo-shoots in rock ‘n’ roll history.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr walk over the zebra crossing next to Abbey Road studios. There and back. Three times. Six clicks of the shutter. Just six photographs, and the shoot was over.
During his lifetime, photographer Iain MacMillan produced and signed a number of colour prints of each of these Abbey Road session photographs, made to the highest archival standards from the original transparencies. Iain passed away on 8 May 2006 and signed examples of his work are finite and very scarce. They are highly prized amongst Beatles collectors.
Frame four in the sequence is shown here, showing the Beatles traversing right to left (the opposite direction to the LP sleeve), with London traffic in the background. We have one example of this photograph available, made on 20×24 inch paper, from an edition of 25, and signed and numbered on the front under the image area by Iain MacMillan.
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FROM OUR BLONDIE EXHIBITION
Featured items from Picture This: Blondie by Martyn Goddard
British photographer Martyn Goddard photographed Blondie in June 1978, capturing Debbie Harry and the band in various locations around Manhattan, in hotel rooms, on rooftops, in the recording studio for Parallel Lines, then on tour in the USA. Later that year he photographed her in London for the launch of her single ‘Picture This’ and his ‘Blondie in Camera’, exhibition.
FROM OUR RECENT EXHIBITION
Featured items from Birds of Britain by John d Green
John d Green’s photographs from his legendary book Birds of Britain, published in 1967 and long out of print, were the subject of a major exhibition at the gallery.