The Legends of the 60s: Photos by Bent Rej at V!P’s Amsterdam

Millions of words have been written about the 60s – the groups, the singers and the scene – but nothing captures the magic quite like brilliant photography. It was a time when music was not burdened with the labels that have since become commonplace. Pop music was… well it was pop music. Music marketing hadn’t been invented and while image was everything it wasn’t manipulated and managed like it is today. Music was either in the Pop, Jazz or Classical sections of record shops and Pop was everything from The Mothers of Invention and Jimi Hendrix to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich.

Photographer Bent Rej was part of it all and right in the center. The exhibition at V!P's International Art Galleries Amsterdam of his photos gives a unique insight in this world of the 60s. His pictures are like ‘time-pieces’ from that magical time when music was testing its boundaries, when radical change was not merely a dream but fast becoming a reality. Crucially Bent’s pictures are not just images of the artists – he has stories and insights to go with his pictures and the exact date when each and every one was shot. Bent was one of a handful of photographers who became part of the scene.

V!P's International Art Galleries have locations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The exhibition on Bent Rej at V!P's International Art Galleries Amsterdam is running from 16 April to 30 May 2010.


SIXTIES ROCK LEGENDS – ON STAGE BACK STAGE

Photography by Bent Rej
V!P's International Art Galleries Amsterdam
16 April - 30 May
www.vipsart.nl


All images: © Bent Rej
Images supplied by: V!P's International Art Galleries Amsterdam