Ethan Russell is an author, and a multiple Grammy nominated photographer. To give you some background in 1967, Ethan was young American with a Nikon camera living in London and aspiring to become a writer.
Just a few years later he was regarded as one of the foremost rock photographers in the world. After his work with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, garnering his first Grammy nomination for The Who’s Quadrophenia, Ethan went on to photograph artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Phil Everly, Jim Morrison Janis Joplin, the Moody Blues, Cream, Traffic, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, John Hiatt, Rickie Lee Jones, Audioslave, and Rosanne Cash. He also worked on music videos with Ethan went on to produce and direct films with Rickie LeeJones, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, kd lang.Basically all of the most talented musicians of eternity.
Pete Townshend the king of Rock & Roll himself said about Russell, “As an artist himself, Ethan is the civilized eye on an uncivilized art-form; rock ‘n’ roll.”
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