Eric Meola made one of the most iconic photographs in the history of rock ‘n’ roll: the cover photograph on Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1975 album Born to Run.
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Valmy
£ 10,181 – £ 20,363A convenience store and gas station in the very small town of Valmy, Nevada, off of route 80. Photographed on a road trip from Salt Lake City to Reno, Nevada in 1977. The idea was to make photographs, especially landscapes, that echoed the themes on the "Darkness" album. Out of this trip, Bruce wrote the song "The Promised Land." Eric recalls: "The day after Elvis died, we flew out to Utah to shoot for Darkness on the Edge of Town, and after driving all night through towns with names like Beowawe, Winnemucca and Valmy, I remember trying to fall asleep one night in Elko; but it wasn't easy, laying on the hood of the Ford Galaxie we had been driving across the desert, with dogs howling somewhere in the distance." "Valmy" was rumoured to be a possible cover for Darkness on the Edge of Town. -
Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
Archival limited edition pigment print on fiber paper, 32 x 48 inch image size, signed, dated and numbered on the front by Eric Meola. Edition of 10 in this size. This photograph was also available in a smaller size, with a 20 x 30 inch image in an edition of 15, but these are all sold out. -
Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: The Promise
£ 3,100 – £ 13,563The cover photograph from the album The Promise, taken near Route 80 in Nevada in 1977, a few days after Elvis Presley died.Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Archival limited edition pigment print on fiber paper, 20 x 30 inch image size on 24 x 36 inch paper, signed, dated and numbered on the front by Eric Meola. Edition of 15 in this size. Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Thunder Road Variations (trio)
£ 3,464 – £ 10,392Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: cover variations triptych
£ 3,464 – £ 10,392Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Blowin’ That Saxophone triptych
£ 3,464 – £ 10,392Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Bustin’ The City in Half
£ 5,859 – £ 9,623Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Thunder Road
£ 3,464 – £ 9,623Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Big Man and Bruce close up
£ 5,775 – £ 8,425Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Last Man Standing
£ 2,325 – £ 6,976Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Drive All Night
£ 2,325 – £ 6,147Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Down by the Railroad Tracks
£ 2,442 – £ 6,105Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: We’ll Walk in the Sun
£ 2,313 – £ 5,859Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Back To Back
£ 2,312 – £ 5,783Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Prodigal Son
£ 1,540 – £ 5,775"He would walk into the studio and there was not much else you had to know. That stare, the look—somewhere between James Dean, Phil Everly and Dylan. He was always so intense, and yet he was always the most down to earth, salt of the earth guy. He wrote about his sister and Mary and Rosalita, and Wendy and Candy and Sandy and someday he would stand on a stage every night on Broadway and tell his story about growing up, and his old man, and being born to run.” Eric MeolaPhotograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Cover, “Streets of Fire”
£ 2,309 – £ 5,774The image that appears on the cover of Eric Meola's book of Bruce Springsteen photographs, " Streets of Fire".Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Living On The Edge
£ 2,309 – £ 5,774This is a fabulous piece, deliberately blurred by Eric Meola and shot on film with a beautiful visible grain. Check out the companion piece "Take 'Em As They Come".Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Take Em As They Come
£ 2,309 – £ 5,774This is a fabulous piece, deliberately blurred by Eric Meola and shot on film with a beautiful visible grain. Check out the companion piece "Living On the Edge".Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: My Father’s House
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Badlands
£ 2,309 – £ 5,774"Badlands" was photographed off of Route 80 in Nevada in 1977, a few days after Elvis Presley died.Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Walk Like the Heroes
£ 2,309 – £ 5,774Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Darkness Portrait 1 outtake
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Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Scooter and the Big Man
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Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Making It Talk
£ 3,464 – £ 5,774Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: A transistor blasts
£ 3,464 – £ 5,774Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Backcover, The Unseen Photos
£ 3,445 – £ 5,741The image chosen by Eric Meola for the back cover of his 2006 book, Born To Run, The Unseen Photos. Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Cover, Greatest Hits
£ 3,472 – £ 5,208Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Let The Wind Blow Back Your Hair
£ 3,464 – £ 5,164The inner sleeve image from the Born to Run album. Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Racin’ In The Street
£ 1,540 – £ 4,646Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Darkness sessions: Bruce Springsteen, NYC studio, 1978
£ 1,540 – £ 4,620Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Born To Run Contact sheet
£ 2,362 – £ 4,619When Columbia Records art director John Berg was asked to show his lifetime body of work at the prestigious Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, photographer Eric Meola made this contact sheet for him, which shows 31 frames from among two of the nineteen rolls he shot on June 20, 1975, which resulted in perhaps the most iconic and well-known photograph in rock 'n' roll's history--the cover of the album 'Born to Run'.Photograph Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office
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Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Strike Three
£ 2,418 – £ 3,627Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office -
Eric Meola, Born To Run sessions: Helping Hand I
£ 2,418 – £ 3,626Photograph © Eric Meola, registered with U.S. Copyright Office