Amalie R. Rothschild: Rock Icons and Images includes more than 35 photographs documenting the historic, iconic, turbulent, inventive, revolutionary, and defining time of 1968-1971, experienced through one of that era's most transparent truthtellers: Music.
Myriad musical developments which articulated the iconic moments from the benchmark years of 1968-1971 were caught on film by the documentary style photographer and filmmaker Amalie R. Rothschild, often referred to as the "unofficial photographer of Woodstock." Her images subsequently became the emblematic images of that time, illustrating the passion and the progress of a movement within the chronicle of Rock and Roll.
Rothschild's photos include: The Allman Brothers, B.B. King, Bill Graham, Bob Dylan, Woodstock crowds, The Grateful Dead, Carlos Santana, CSN, CSNY, David Gilmour, Dizzy Gillespie, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, Grace Slick, The Ikettes, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, John Lennon & Yoko, John Fogerty, Joni Mitchell, Joshua Light Show, Keith Richards, Laura Nyro, Mama Cass, Mick Jagger, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Pink Floyd, Ray Charles, Roger Daltrey, Roger Waters, Sly Stone, The Who, Thelonious Monk, Tina Turner, Van Morrison, and more.
Amalie R. Rothschild is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer celebrated for creating documentaries around social issues, and for her music photographs from the Fillmore East, Woodstock and other seminal rock events from 1968 to 1974. The artist is represented in numerous public collections and has exhibited and screened films world-wide including venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Whitney Museum of Art in NY, Hirschhorn Museum in Washington DC, Baltimore Museum of Art, St. Louis Museum, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, San Francisco Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, among others. She is included in prestigious private collections- too many to list-- which include the collections of Jay Z, Sir Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, Galadrielle Allman, and President Bill Clinton. Her films are included in hundreds of university, museum, and public library collections, and have screened in copious film festivals. Her photography is found is many books and anthologies which chronicle music, music culture, and ephemeral moments in music history from the 1960's through mid 1970's
The artist's film, Nana, Mom and Me, screened this past December at MoMA, NY. Goya will screen four of Rothschild's celebrated films [It Happens To Us (1971) 32 Min; Woo Who? May Wilson (1969) 33 min; Conversations with Willard Van Dyke (1981) 56 min; Nana, Mom, and Me (1974) 47 min] throughout her exhibition.
Rothschild grew up in Baltimore, MD. She currently lives and works in Florence, Italy, and New York, NY.
