• A rare session photograph from 1968, taken by Art Kane in his Carnegie Hall studio
  • The Who live at La Locomotive, Paris, 13 November 1965
  • 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.
  • This 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 group portrait by Tom Wright 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 good few scratches on the front and could definitely do with a reframe. It is priced in its original frame but could be reframed for an additional £200. There is no visible signature. The image measures 18 x 23 inches, and the frame measures 24 x 28 inches.   American photographer Tom Wright (1944 - 2022) met Pete Townshend as a student at Ealing College of Art, and left Pete in charge of his vast blues and R&B record collection when he returned to the USA. He never did get those records back, but he kept in contact with the band and was their road manager on tour in the USA in 1967 and 1968, photographing them extensively during this period.
  • This 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. 
  • Don Paulsen (1940-2005) was a New York based music journalist and photographer in the 1960s and 70s. This portrait of Pete Townshend was taken backstage on the Murray the K show in New York in March 1967, and is titled, signed and numbered on the front under the image by Don Paulsen.  The photograph was made from the original negative in the darkroom on 16 x 20 inch paper, and has an image size measuring 12 x 18 inches approximately.  It is supplied ready to hang in a slim profile black metal frame, with overall framed dimensions of 20 x 24 inches. 
  • This 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 Tom Wright of Roger Daltrey and a ladyfriend was one of the photographs in that first lot. It has been signed and dated by Tom Wright and bears the embossed stamp of his archive. This is a silver gelatin print made by hand in the darkroom from the original negative in the darkroom on matt paper. The sheet size is 20 x 24 inches, and the image measures 16 x 20 inches. There are some small scuffs to the border, but these would not be visible when framed.  American photographer Tom Wright (1944 - 2022) met Pete Townshend as a student at Ealing College of Art, and left Pete in charge of his vast blues and R&B record collection when he returned to the USA. He never did get those records back, but he kept in contact with the band and was their road manager on tour in the USA in 1967 and 1968, photographing them extensively during this period.
  • Jim Marshall: The Who, first US tour, San Francisco CA 1967. An archival photograph in a limited edition of 25 on 20 x 24 inch paper. A stamped, numbered, posthumous estate print issued by the Jim Marshall Estate in one size only with certificate of authenticity. Price is shown for an unframed example excluding VAT.

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