Fri 1/26 @ noon
Welshman Chalkie Davies was one of the most prominent rock music photographers of the 1970s and ’80s. In 1973 while still in his teens, he photographed David Bowie’s final performance as Ziggy Stardust. That launched his career shooting for major British music and culture publications such as New Musical Express and The Face. He also shot album covers for acts such as Bowie, Robert Plant, the Pretenders and the Who.
Like many music photographers of that generation, he left that work behind by the late ’80s, moving to New York where he became a successful advertising product photographer.
Davies is coming to Kent State University to give an illustrated lecture on photography and its relationship to paintings of the 15th and 16th century. For it he photographed such paintings and juxtaposed them with some of his own photos. He’ll show the results as well as talk about his influences, his artistic philosophy, and his working process.
The program is free and open to the public. It takes place in room 165 at the KSU Center for the Visual Arts.
Kent, OH 44240