Iconic Rock'n'Roll Images

Famous photos highlight the Autumn Antiques for Everyone Fair.

Iconic photographs of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Slade will be a major attraction at the Antiques for Everyone Fair at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham from Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th November 2006.

The special loan exhibition, titled 'Iconic Rock Photography from the 1960's and 1970's', will feature the work of Gered Mankowitz, the internationally famous photographer. The display will include many of Mankowitz's most memorable images from the sixties and seventies. The display is presented by Simon Sieff of Sieff Fine Antiques & Contemporary Design in London, and will highlight the growing trend for using photography as an artistic feature in interior design. The display will be the first time that a collection of Mankowitz's images of Slade will have been seen in public. Ten images will be on display, an occasion which coincides with the re-release of their classic albums and a CD box set.

"Photography is crossing the line from being something for collectors to a wider audience, and what we are trying to do is combine the latest digital printing techniques with iconic photographs," says Sieff. "We want to show people that you can mix 20th-century works with older pieces and look good." Simon Sieff will also provide a range of designer furniture demonstrating how art and design can be combined with antiques in a modern setting.

Gered Mankowitz was born in London in 1946, the first son of the author and screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz and the psychotherapist Ann Mankowitz. After attending several North London progressive schools he left devoid of any academic qualifications aged 15 and served a short but Intensive apprenticeship with the legendary photographer Tom Blau at Camera Press Ltd. After two years of assisting in various different fields of photography Gered established his frst studio in Masons Yard, in the very heart of 60s swinging London in 1963.

Through working with folk/pop duo Chad & Jeremy he met and photographed Marianne Faithful who was managed by the mercurial Andrew Loog Oldham, who also managed the Rolling Stones. Gered started working with the Rolling Stones in 1965; he toured America with them later that year and produced several album covers for the band. He continued working with them on a regular basis until 1967 by which time Gered was established as one of London's leading rock photographers. Over the past 40 years Gered has continued to work In the music business as well as supplying many leading magazines with celebrity portraits and also finding time to take prize winning images for the advertising Industry. Currently Gered has been concentrating on books and exhibitions trying to satisfy the huge global interest that has built up in his archive.

The NEC's Antiques for Everyone fair is a regular autumn event that attracts around 20,000 collectors and connoisseurs from across the world. It is the UK's largest indoor, datelined event with more than 50,000 antiques on sale. Four hundred exhibitors specialise in everything from fine period furniture to pottery, porcelain, glass, fine paintings, silver, jewellery, clocks, barometers, early toys, samplers, sculpture, prints, antiquities, textiles, Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and all kinds of rare and collectable objets d'art.

Prices range from less than £10 to more than £100,000 and exhibits are strictly vetted for quality and authenticity. Many exhibitors are members of the antiques trade's two leading organisations, the BADA and LAPADA.

The fair is divided into two sections: Section One features antiques and works of art usually shown in sumptuous room-set style displays that demonstrate how period furniture, paintings and decorative accessories can complement any home. Section Two features dealers offering all kinds of antiques and collectables up to 1950.

The Fair is organised by Clarion Arts and the Fair Manager is Tiffany Pritchard. Says Tiffany, "Our autumn fair is always a busy event with regular collectors joined by visitors looking for an extra special Christmas present. Our jewellery specialists are always particularly busy!"

The fair location is Hall 5, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK, B40 1NT. Admission costs £10, including free car parking. Open times are Thursday 11am-8pm, Friday/Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm.

For visitor information telephone 0121 767 2947, or visit: www.antiquesforeveryone.net

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