(not sure which forum this shold be in, but since P is only a portion of this piece, I'm choosing the non-P forum!)

Photo exhibit surveys 40 years of 'Musicapolis'
Jon Bream, Star Tribune
July 22, 2005 FT0722


Bob Dylan's first electric concert. Prince's first professional show. The Beatles at Met Stadium. "Musicapolis" will take you there, and to many other magical moments in Minnesota music history.

With 250 mostly black-and-white photos, "Musicapolis: Scene and Seen, 1965-2005" examines four decades of (mostly rock) music in the Land of 10,000 Grooves. The exhibit, which opens Saturday at the Minnesota Center for Photography in northeast Minneapolis, features local shots of out-of-town stars (from Etta James to Eminem) as well as hometown heroes (from Curtiss A to Martin Zellar) with, of course, plenty of Prince (from the days when he still allowed photographers access to his concerts).

Inspired by Prince's "Musicology" album, Twin Cities curator Colleen Sheehy coined the title "Musicapolis" for the exhibit she organized with four of her art graduate students at the University of St. Thomas. After extensive research, Sheehy decided to limit the exhibit to 18 photographers, all of whom have lived here at one time or another, except for Daniel Kramer, who famously photographed Dylan in New York in '65.

Sheehy wishes she had located photos of Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and Fingerprints, a long-lost local band of the late '70s. Others might yearn for Leo Kottke, Lamont Cranston, the Steeles, the Honeydogs, Atmosphere, Sounds of Blackness and Garrison Keillor, among others.

The punk-loving Sheehy was not interested in a comprehensive history of Minnesota music but rather "a fun way of encapsulating this place as a music center" and being "a good representation on how music gets photographed."

Whatever your favorites in Minnesota music, this show will underscore that musicians make terrific subjects for photographers.

For the images in this online photo gallery, we asked several of the shooters to share stories about their images in the exhibit.

Musicapolis: Scene and Seen, 1965-2005

• What: Exhibit of 200-plus music photos -- from the Beatles to Babes in Toyland -- shot by Minnesotans

• Where: Minnesota Center for Photography, 165 13th Av. NE., Mpls.
• When: Sat. through Sept. 3
• Tickets: $10 for Saturday's opening event with live music, 4-9 p.m. Thereafter $3. 612-824-5500
• Website: www.mncp.org.


The actual story appears here : http://www.startribune.co...19567.html and contains a link to about 10 fotos including Princey.

Any MPLS folks gonna check out this exhibit?

first ave. is gonna do another similar exhibit pretty soon...gotta double-check their website to see when it is, but i'll be going to that one. i looked at the strib's little photo-thing last night--i love that picture of etta james they've got there.

Love this one:



The Prince caption on there is pretty funny.


Prince, Capri Theater, 1979

Greg Helgeson: "It was his first professional concert. I sat in the fifth row. I didn't know at first that all his relatives were sitting next to me. I didn't shoot a lot. I was blown away by his appearance. He was just as unusual then. I got a call a few days later, and Prince wanted prints of all my photos. I went over there, and he wrote me a check and didn't say a word. Two years later, I ran into him at the Minnesota Music Awards at the Prom Center and asked him if he remembered me and my photographs. He said: 'I don't like photographs.'"

That could be right out of the Prince Show. Thanks, Endo!

btw, here's the info about the thing the 7th street entry's gonna have. it's next tuesday night:

MINNESOTA CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY PRESENTS TWIN TOWN MUSIC THEN AND NOW

a rare panel discussion about the local music scene with Patty Dean, Steve McClellan, Chris Osgood, and Pete and Kim Rhodes moderated by Chris Roberts and Colleen Sheehy

$3.00 door

...starts at 6:30, 21+.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

that sounds VERY interesting!