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These limited edition digital prints are personally signed, hand printed, and matted by the photographer, Richard E. Aaron, using archival cotton fiber paper.
Paper size - 24 x 30 | Image size - 26 x 18
$1,300.00
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Rolling Stones - Keith Richard got busted on a drug charge in Canada, and his sentence was to have the Stones put on a show in Canada for sight-impaired people. I called the Stone's office to see if I would be able to shoot this concert for the various magazines for which I freelanced, Time, Newsweek, etc. They were only allowing two photographers to shoot the concert, and I was one of them. I could shoot the whole show, the stage was only 3-feet high. Here was the icing on the cake: I asked a security guard if where I was kneeling was OK to shoot from, he laughed and said that not only was it OK but I could also stand up if I wanted to, the first 15 or so rows were reserved for sight-impaired concert-goers -- so I could stand up while shooting the whole show. I brought 80 rolls of film, color and B&W, which at the time I thought that I might use maybe 20. When the show started, I realized just what a dream shoot this turned out to be: The Stones were 6 feet away from me and the lighting was perfect. I used all the film. The shots appeared in more than 60 magazines worldwide.
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Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Rolling Stones - Keith Richard got busted on a drug charge in Canada, and his sentence was to have the Stones put on a show in Canada for sight-impaired people. I called the Stone's office to see if I would be able to shoot this concert for the various magazines for which I freelanced, Time, Newsweek, etc. They were only allowing two photographers to shoot the concert, and I was one of them. I could shoot the whole show, the stage was only 3-feet high. Here was the icing on the cake: I asked a security guard if where I was kneeling was OK to shoot from, he laughed and said that not only was it OK but I could also stand up if I wanted to, the first 15 or so rows were reserved for sight-impaired concert-goers -- so I could stand up while shooting the whole show. I brought 80 rolls of film, color and B&W, which at the time I thought that I might use maybe 20. When the show started, I realized just what a dream shoot this turned out to be: The Stones were 6 feet away from me and the lighting was perfect. I used all the film. The shots appeared in more than 60 magazines worldwide.
Click here for a larger image.
$1,300.00
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Ray Charles - My friends in Richmond VA were doing a show and asked me to fly down to see them and maybe to possibly do some performance photos of them on stage. They were good friends so I flew down and got to the show to find out they were not the headliner but the opening band to Ray Charles. So since I was able to shoot my friends I was also able to shoot the opening. I got back home and placed the photos in my file which they remained for twenty years when I got a call from my agent to said that Ray was on his death bed and they wanted to know if I had any images and if so to scan all of them up. To think I almost did not go to shoot my friends in Richmond.
Click here for a larger image.
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Ray Charles - My friends in Richmond VA were doing a show and asked me to fly down to see them and maybe to possibly do some performance photos of them on stage. They were good friends so I flew down and got to the show to find out they were not the headliner but the opening band to Ray Charles. So since I was able to shoot my friends I was also able to shoot the opening. I got back home and placed the photos in my file which they remained for twenty years when I got a call from my agent to said that Ray was on his death bed and they wanted to know if I had any images and if so to scan all of them up. To think I almost did not go to shoot my friends in Richmond.
Click here for a larger image.
$1,300.00
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
James Brown - Living in New York City, you have to be keen on where you walk and shoot. A photographer loaded down with equipment is an easy mark. I got a call from James Brown's record label to photograph him in Harlem for a benefit street concert. Cool, except the publicist said I better take the subway since the blocked-off streets prevented a taxi from getting anywhere close to the stage. I put everything I needed in a brown paper bag and took the subway up to the shoot; no one suspected that I was a photographer. The concert was incredible; the huge audience loved him. I got great preference shots for the label and I wanted to do something different. I went back stage when a song was over and yelled out "James!" He turned around, saw me and smiled.
Click here for a larger image.
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
James Brown - Living in New York City, you have to be keen on where you walk and shoot. A photographer loaded down with equipment is an easy mark. I got a call from James Brown's record label to photograph him in Harlem for a benefit street concert. Cool, except the publicist said I better take the subway since the blocked-off streets prevented a taxi from getting anywhere close to the stage. I put everything I needed in a brown paper bag and took the subway up to the shoot; no one suspected that I was a photographer. The concert was incredible; the huge audience loved him. I got great preference shots for the label and I wanted to do something different. I went back stage when a song was over and yelled out "James!" He turned around, saw me and smiled.
Click here for a larger image.
$1,300.00
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Paul McCartney - These were the shots that graced 30 magazine covers worldwide including Time magazine -- and it almost didn't happen. McCartney's "Wings" tour had just landed in Texas and two of the tour publicists, who were friends of mine, asked me to join the opening concerts, obviously the very last minute. They said that I would not have to get any of my shots approved and would be the first to get photos of the tour out to the press. This shoot turned out to be the key to a small goldmine for me. The tour had two official photographers but all their photos had to be approved by a huge bureaucracy of people that surrounded McCartney, a process that took about two weeks. After the last show, I immediately flew back to New York, sent the film to the labs and called every magazine with an office in New York (which was every magazine). Time Magazine dropped their planned art rendition cover and used my photo on the cover. This was one of the many stage shots I did.
Click here for a larger image.
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Paul McCartney - These were the shots that graced 30 magazine covers worldwide including Time magazine -- and it almost didn't happen. McCartney's "Wings" tour had just landed in Texas and two of the tour publicists, who were friends of mine, asked me to join the opening concerts, obviously the very last minute. They said that I would not have to get any of my shots approved and would be the first to get photos of the tour out to the press. This shoot turned out to be the key to a small goldmine for me. The tour had two official photographers but all their photos had to be approved by a huge bureaucracy of people that surrounded McCartney, a process that took about two weeks. After the last show, I immediately flew back to New York, sent the film to the labs and called every magazine with an office in New York (which was every magazine). Time Magazine dropped their planned art rendition cover and used my photo on the cover. This was one of the many stage shots I did.
Click here for a larger image.
$1,300.00
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Bob Marley - Rasta comes to New York. When Bob Marley performed at the Academy of Music in 1974, the verdict was still out whether reggae would play big in the Big Apple. By the end of the show, Marley had conquered Manhattan. By the way, there must been more ganja smoked that night in the Academy than any other in the history of that venerable venue.
Click here for a larger image.
Photograph by Richard E. Aaron
Limited Edition 5/25 & 6/25
Bob Marley - Rasta comes to New York. When Bob Marley performed at the Academy of Music in 1974, the verdict was still out whether reggae would play big in the Big Apple. By the end of the show, Marley had conquered Manhattan. By the way, there must been more ganja smoked that night in the Academy than any other in the history of that venerable venue.
Click here for a larger image.
