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Limited edition of 250 handmade silver gelatin photographs on 20 x 24 inch paper, signed and numbered on the front by Amalie R Rothschild.
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A rare session photograph from 1968, taken by Art Kane in his Carnegie Hall studio
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"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, Fagins gang." - Art Kane. Knowing that John Entwistle and Pete Townshend wore jackets made from flags, 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.
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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, Fagins gang. - Art Kane Knowing that John Entwistle and Pete Townshend wore jackets made from flags, 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. 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. The photograph was a homage to a Cartier-Bresson photograph of a vagrant asleep in Trafalgar Square. An underexposure in overcast conditions produced deeply saturated colours, causing the flag to jump out from the dark background.
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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, Fagins gang. - Art Kane Pete Townshend always remembered working with Art - in the seventies he admonished another photographer who didn't give them enough instruction: "When Art Kane took our picture, he told us, go there, do this, do that, be asleep, put your head on his shoulder...we like that kind of direction"
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Out of stockThis actual print was the personal property of the late great John Entwistle. In May 2003, Sothebys in London auctioned 386 lots belonging to John Entwistle. The majority of lots consisted of guitars, but lot number one in the auction comprised John’s favourite photographs of The Who, which originally hung on the walls of his home. This portrait by Colin Jones of The Who was one of the photographs in that first lot. It has a removable Sotheby’s sticker on the glass in the front left corner, and a Sotheby’s ticket strung on the reverse. It is in its original wood frame—the one John Entwistle had when he owned it—which has a small scratch on the top section. It is priced in its original frame but could be reframed for an additional £200. There is no visible signature. The image measures 16.5 x 23 inches, and the frame measures 21.5 x 28 inches. British photographer Colin Jones (1936-2021) first photographed the Who in 1965, when this photograph was taken in Wapping Lane, in London’s Surrey Docks - “one of my haunts down in the East End docklands” as Colin recalled later. Colin’s poignant and evocative images of the British working class from the last of the dock workers to the final days of the miners and steel workers are rightly acclaimed. Bill Brandt was a major fan of Colin’s work, which has been shown in major exhibitions in London, Washington and beyond.
