Armed with a galaxy of historic and contemporary rock ‘n’ roll image archives, photographer Robert Knight has recently signed with the Limelight Agency to offer a stunning collection of his work to the public. Since the tumultuous 1960s, Knight’s classic photos have seared images in our minds of guitar legends like Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King…
It was 1967 when an R&B band from Birmingham, England , decided their second album would be nothing like their first.
The Brotherhood Of The Guitar is an idea I’ve had for sometime. Ever since I was in the documentary film Rock Prophecies, and found young artists like Sick Puppies, and Tyler Bryant, I have been getting hundreds of emails a month, asking me to either look at, or help, up and coming young guitars players and young bands.
First and foremost, Robert Knight is an artist in the fine art of photography. His photographs of rock performers have helped to define many iconic moments in rock ‘n’ roll. Whether his subjects are on stage performing or artfully posed for their publicity needs, album covers or personal interests, every picture captures the essence of what defines these people as musicians and legends in their own right.
“Some people collect stamps, some people collect butterflies – I collect rock stars,” photographer Robert Knight muses in Rock Prophecies, a documentary about how he managed, through luck, perseverance and the uncanny ability to discover talent well before the rest of the planet, to be in the right place at the right time – again and again and again.
Review of Robert M. Knight’s book featuring many amazing photographs of some of the biggest names in rock history such as Slash, Jeff Beck and others.
One of the finest rock photographers of all time, Robert Knight, has joined forces with photographer-artist Maryanne Bilham and photographer Jim Evans to open the Knight Gallery, where his and his cohorts work is displayed at the Las Vegas Hilton.
