March 10<\/a>. Be sure you don\u2019t wait too long to check it out, either, because it\u2019s only around for one month!<\/p>\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8407-1024x1024.jpg\")
Credit: Chris Clunn \u2013 A Tribe Called Quest -London \u2013 10-12-89<\/p>\n
AIM, SHOOT, STOP, FIX and music photography in the 70s and 80s<\/p>\n
To understand just what made the music photography of this time period so significant and impactful, you have to understand how different the attitude was. At the time, music journalism and publications like NME played an integral role in shaping culture. As such, due to their importance and sway, \u201cphotographers were granted remarkable creative freedom and unprecedented access to emerging artists\u201d.<\/p>\n
At the time, there was far less corporate control and fewer concerns about public image. There was a trust that united the artists and the photographers, who were often \u201cembedded in the scene \u2014 backstage, on the road, in studios, at home.\u201d It was the type of access that led to a level of intimacy and accessibility that resulted in wholly unique images.<\/p>\n
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Credit: David Corio \u2013 The Fugees at Sony Records NYC 28 January 1994 (l-r) Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras Michel.<\/p>\n
Added to that was the unique crossroads that music reached as the 80s marched on into the 90s. The time saw riotous creativity and expression as \u201cpost-punk fractured into new wave, hip-hop crossed into the mainstream, Britpop exploded, and club culture reshaped Britain. These are not simply portraits \u2014 they are documents of musical history in the making.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musicians in the music photography exhibition<\/p>\n
Together, the four photographers featured in the show have snapped hundreds of artists \u2013 including household names that even the most ardent living-under-a-rock music-ignorer has heard of. In a sense, these photographers have defined the way many of us now see modern music and musicians. <\/p>\n
Among the musicians they\u2019ve shot are:<\/p>\n
Snoop Dogg<\/p>\n
Madonna<\/p>\n
Robbie Williams<\/p>\n
David Bowie<\/p>\n
Run DMC<\/p>\n
Nick Cave<\/p>\n
Marvin Gaye<\/p>\n
Joy Division<\/p>\n
Iggy Pop<\/p>\n
Oasis<\/p>\n
Sade<\/p>\n
Bob Marley<\/p>\n
Blur<\/p>\n
Jamiroquai<\/p>\n
and many, many more.<\/p>\n
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Credit: Lawrence Watson \u2013 Pulp with mannequins, Joy Studios, Highbury London 1994<\/p>\n
AIM, SHOOT, STOP, FIX is on display from March 10 \u2013 April 9, 2026.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udccd Worldly Wicked & Wise Gallery, 81 Salusbury Road, NW6 6NH. The nearest station is Queen\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Lawrence Watson – Snoop Dogg California State Prison, Los Angeles. 1996 (l); George Clinton, Los Angeles, 1988…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[75845,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,8798,128,6487,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-467677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art-exhibition","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition","tag-music","tag-photography","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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