Off The Hook
The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz
British music photographer Gered Mankowitz revisits his legendary Rolling Stones archive for a new exhibition, Off The Hook, and a new signed limited edition book, Backstage.
Taken together, the book and the exhibition present two very different sides of The Rolling Stones at the height of their early fame. Instantly recognisable images on the gallery walls in spectacular eye-popping large fomats, coupled with a wealth of previously unexplored behind-the-scenes photographs in the book, come together in a Gered Mankowitz Rolling Stones extravaganza that you really don’t want to miss.
We hope you enjoy exploring the limited edition photographs in the Off The Hook exhibition
Off The Hook: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz focuses on the very best of Gered’s Stones photography from 1965-67 and coincides with Exhibitionism, the international exhibition on the Rolling Stones at the Saatchi Gallery, which also includes a selection of Gered’s images.
Off The Hook features well known images from all of Gered’s major sessions with the band, including key album cover sessions for Out of Our Heads, and Between The Buttons, together with a selection of little known and unseen photographs, in dramatic large formats, some up to six feet high.
If you would like to own one of Gered Mankowitz’s signed limited edition photographs, then you can place an order by getting in touch with us at the gallery. If you would like to order an item online, just click on an individual image and you will see price and size options.
If you have any questions please just ask.
The new limited edition book from Ormond Yard Press. Say hello to Backstage.
Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz is strictly limited to 750 individually numbered copies worldwide, each one signed by Gered Mankowitz.
Ormond Yard Press: Bringing You The Bigger Picture.
Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz is in stock and shipping now. As with all previous Ormond Yard Press volumes, it includes 96 large format pages. Backstage is a book on a spectacular scale: an ultra large format hardcover measuring 24” high x 18” wide (60x45cm) when closed.
Backstage shines the spotlight on what goes on offstage, behind the scenes. Poker with Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, sharing toffee apples with Bo Diddley, tuning up in locker rooms full of jockstraps and cuddly toys, and much more. Backstage: The Rolling Stones by Gered Mankowitz, is a fascinating, unguarded photo-essay of these defining days, presented as an ultra-large format signed hardback limited edition of just 750 individually numbered examples worldwide, each one signed by Gered Mankowitz.
Read more about Backstage.
Brian Jones
Photographed by Gered Mankowitz in London in 1965 for his US Visa application.
One of the six portraits forming The Cross.
A centrepiece in the Off The Hook exhibition is the re-interpretation of Gered’s 1965 passport photographs of Mick, Keith, Brian, Bill and Charlie to produce a new artwork, The Cross, a highly colourised installation piece consisting of six jewel-like images in cross formation. This image is made as a Chromaluxe print.
Chromaluxe printing is an archivally stable process that produces prints with outstanding depth and an ultra- high-gloss finish. The technique uses a process called dye sublimation to fuse the image directly on to a 1.2mm panel of white coated aluminium. The print cannot be scratched, and so is framed without glazing. This allows the viewer to fully appreciate the highly saturated colours and jewel-like appearance. Because there is no glass involved, framed prints ship easily, and so we are quoting prices for this piece with a slim profile black metal frame.
Ormond Yard, St James’s, 1965
In his first session with the Stones in 1965, Gered Mankowitz’s produced the cover shot for Out of our Heads (December’s Children in the US), in Ormond Yard, just outside his Masons Yard Studio. The session also yielded “Caged”, one of his best loved photographs.
Keith Richards
Photographed in 1965 by Gered Mankowitz
RCA Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Mick Jagger with microphone
Recording Aftermath at RCA Studios, 1965
In December 1965, Gered Mankowitz accompanied the Rolling Stones to RCA studios in Hollywood, CA, where the band recorded tracks for the Aftermath album.
This photograph of Mick with microphone, and the image above, showing Keith Richards with his Gibson Hummingbird, were taken at that session.
They are available to purchase as signed limited editions in a range of physical sizes.
Keith, Mick, Mick and Brian
Limo montage, US tour, 1965.
Signed limited edition available to purchase.
