Rock & Roll Nostalgia: Look Back With Barrie Wentzell (1960s)

Aug 30, 2020 - Sep 24, 2020 | Themes: Photo Journalism

The Legend Series returns for a final tour. YES. We have 30 unique artwork to share with you now.

Welcome back. It's been a l-o-n-g five months. We have regrouped,  Now, bigger and better to serve you more.

Here's our Plan A:

• Each and every September Day, The Floyd Gallery will post a different Barrie Wentzell image on our Facebook Page: Robert Floyd Gallery/Learning Center

• Prints from the 100 image "Legend Series" by the #1 Rock 'N Roll photographer, Melody Maker's own Barrie Wentzell. 

• Each print comes with two separate appraisals for $1,500Canadian per print.

• We gift you a 40% discount for an affordable investment of only $650USD per print.Anniversary dates: First one is birth; second one is the date they moved on ahead

• The Floyd Gallery will share on Facebook some links to the performers' songs and videos.

• Throughout September, we will position each 16" X 20" artwork print at 50% of its appraised value. Barrie has signed each one, front and back, plus his unique embossed 'signature' at the bottom of every print.

• Our official framer, The Big Red Frame Custom Framing in Easthampton, will matt and frame your Barrie Wentzell print at a 20% discount.

• We 100% guarantee your complete satisfaction. 

• Once you see our Rock Star lineup, enjoy.

When you fall in love and must have a particular artwork, please contact us. We will reserve it for you immediately.

413-529-2635 or floyd@floydgallery.com.

Thank you.

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ABOUT BARRIE WENTZELL

• Born on May 25th, 1942 in Durham, northern England, Barrie was educated in Kent and London, attending Maidstone Art School in Kent in the late 1950’s.
• His first job at Manhattan Displays on Greek Street in London’s Soho occupied him from 1959 to 1961, during which time he became an avid scrabble player under the tuition of author, performer, wit and philosopher, Quentin Crisp.
• He continued on to work at Color Applications, a photo studio in the Belgravia area of London learning photography basics from 1961 to 1962.
• It was then, upon meeting his soon to become mentor, photojournalist Maurice Newcombe, that he would be inspired to pursue a photographic career of his own.

• During the early 1960’s, Barrie began diversifying into the worlds of fashion, music and advertising.
• In 1965 he had a chance encounter with the young Diana Ross.
• The image he made of this yet-to-be global super-star became a riveting front cover of The Melody Maker, England’s most renowned music publication, which caught the attention of Bob Houston, the assistant editor at the time.
• Houston was to contact Barrie and sign him on as exclusive chief photographer for the paper.
• Barrie went on to shoot for the Melody Maker from 1965 until 1975, one of the most important decades in the history of popular music, photographing many unknown musicians who would later become legends and household names.

Celebrated artists such as Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and rock and roll icons such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and countless more all have their place in Barrie Wentzell’s vast archive.

• In 1975, Barrie abandoned his Soho studio, leaving photography and the longest running party behind to move to the Isle of Wight and pursue a completely different direction.

Barrie continues to contribute his work to exhibitions, museums, private collections, books, CD’s and DVD’s worldwide and licenses reproduction rights for his images to the media. He is currently working on a book of his own to coincide with a documentary film and international exhibition. Barrie lives and works in Toronto, Canada.