Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dennis Morris is a British photographer best known for his images of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols.In 1979, he created the logo for the band Public Image Limited and the innovative Metal Box album packaging.He then became Art Director of Island Records and designed album covers for the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Marianne Faithfull (Broken English) and Bob Marley.In mid-1979 he replaced Don Letts as vocalist of Basement 5, the avant-garde punk rock reggae band. He created their logo, image, photography and graphics and gained a recording contract with Island Records; their albums ("Basement 5 - 1965 to 1980" and "Basement in Dub") were produced by Martin Hannett.He has held exhibitions worldwide (Sydney Opera House, Laforet Museum Tokyo, Contact Toronto and in galleries in London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stuttgart ...).In June 2005, the Spectrum London gallery had a show of photographs by Morris documenting the daily lives, ceremonies and rituals of the Mowanjum Australian Aborigine community. The gallery was blessed by Aboriginal tribe leader, Francis Firebrace, wearing body paint and tribal dress.He was commissioned to show a new body of work at the Today Art Museum in Beijing in 2008 to coincide with the Olympic Cultural programme.A large installation of his punk images (part of the “I am a cliché, Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic” exhibition curated by Emma Lavigne) was shown at the 41st Rencontres d’Arles (France) during the summer of 2010. His photographs have become highly collectable, including one body of work (Southall – a home from home) bought by English Heritage, on permanent display at Gunnersbury Park Museum in London.In 2013, he collaborated with Shepard Fairey on a new body of work titled S.I.D (Superman Is Dead) and culminating with an exhibition at Subliminal Projects (LA- USA); the exhibition is due to tour Europe in 2014. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/15-photos-of-shepard-faireys-superman-is-dead-exhibit-opening-20131216Growing Up Black a collection of his photographs from the Black community in Hackney is part of the permanent collection of the Hackney Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has acquired some photographs from the Growing Up Black collection. His photographs have appeared in publications including Rolling Stone, Time, People magazine, V magazine, GQ, I-D, Vogue and the Sunday Times.His work has been used in books such as: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, by Greil Marcus, published by Harvard University Press; “Century”, by Bruce Bernard, published by Phaidon Press; “Punk” by Steven Colgrave and Chris Sullivan; “Rolling Stone”, The complete covers 1967-1997. He has been the subject of documentaries and TV programmes in the UK and America.. }
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- Dennis_Morris_(photographer) abstract "Dennis Morris is a British photographer best known for his images of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols.In 1979, he created the logo for the band Public Image Limited and the innovative Metal Box album packaging.He then became Art Director of Island Records and designed album covers for the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Marianne Faithfull (Broken English) and Bob Marley.In mid-1979 he replaced Don Letts as vocalist of Basement 5, the avant-garde punk rock reggae band. He created their logo, image, photography and graphics and gained a recording contract with Island Records; their albums ("Basement 5 - 1965 to 1980" and "Basement in Dub") were produced by Martin Hannett.He has held exhibitions worldwide (Sydney Opera House, Laforet Museum Tokyo, Contact Toronto and in galleries in London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stuttgart ...).In June 2005, the Spectrum London gallery had a show of photographs by Morris documenting the daily lives, ceremonies and rituals of the Mowanjum Australian Aborigine community. The gallery was blessed by Aboriginal tribe leader, Francis Firebrace, wearing body paint and tribal dress.He was commissioned to show a new body of work at the Today Art Museum in Beijing in 2008 to coincide with the Olympic Cultural programme.A large installation of his punk images (part of the “I am a cliché, Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic” exhibition curated by Emma Lavigne) was shown at the 41st Rencontres d’Arles (France) during the summer of 2010. His photographs have become highly collectable, including one body of work (Southall – a home from home) bought by English Heritage, on permanent display at Gunnersbury Park Museum in London.In 2013, he collaborated with Shepard Fairey on a new body of work titled S.I.D (Superman Is Dead) and culminating with an exhibition at Subliminal Projects (LA- USA); the exhibition is due to tour Europe in 2014. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/15-photos-of-shepard-faireys-superman-is-dead-exhibit-opening-20131216Growing Up Black a collection of his photographs from the Black community in Hackney is part of the permanent collection of the Hackney Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has acquired some photographs from the Growing Up Black collection. His photographs have appeared in publications including Rolling Stone, Time, People magazine, V magazine, GQ, I-D, Vogue and the Sunday Times.His work has been used in books such as: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, by Greil Marcus, published by Harvard University Press; “Century”, by Bruce Bernard, published by Phaidon Press; “Punk” by Steven Colgrave and Chris Sullivan; “Rolling Stone”, The complete covers 1967-1997. He has been the subject of documentaries and TV programmes in the UK and America.".