Morrison Hotel Gallery Hosts Rock ‘n’ Roll Exhibit

Morrison Hotel Gallery West announces definitive
Roots of Rock n’ Roll exhibit – a timeline collection that traces the birth of rock n’ roll with the most legendary artists, images, and photographers.

From Friday, September 12th until Sunday, September 21st at Morrison Hotel Gallery located inside the Sunset Marquee Hotel Lobby at 1200 Alta Loma Road, West Hollywood, California, the Gallery will present a comprehensive chronological timeline exhibit of late 1950s to early 1960s music that profoundly traces the birth of rock n’ roll. The show is called The Roots of Rock and Roll – The Rise and Beginning of Rock and Roll and it is free and open to the public.

The images in The Roots of Rock and Roll – The Rise and Beginning of Rock and Roll capture modern music’s most liberated, euphoric, and transformative time with stunning photos of such icons as Elvis, Duke Ellington, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Supremes, Muddy Waters and James Brown. Many of these pictures have come to crystalize artistic careers, genres, and times of boundless creativity. The photographers featured are some culture’s most inspiring and sage cultural commentators, including gallery co-owner Timothy White as well as Al Satterwhite, Art Shay, Catherine McGann, Charles Trainor, Curt Gunther, Danny Clinch, Ethan Russell, Francis Wolff, Henry Diltz, Herb Greene, Herman Leonard, Ian Wright, Joe Alper, Michael Cooper, Neal Preston, Paul Natkin, Robert Altman, and Rowland Scherman.

The exhibit documents the period from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, an astoundingly fertile time for modern music. Genius musicians such as Elvis, Duke Ellington, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Supremes, Muddy Waters and James Brown architected various brilliant sounds that taken together have since become the hallowed home of modern popular music. Their artistry became known as blues, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, doo-wop, and Motown, and these lightning rod creations have prefigured what we now call rock n’ roll.

About Morrison Hotel® Gallery

Morrison Hotel® Gallery (MHG) was founded in 2001 by former record company executive Peter Blachley, music retail industry professional Richard Horowitz, and legendary music photographer Henry Diltz. In 2012, author, director and photographer Timothy White joined the team, launching an additional West Coast gallery at The Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood.

MHG is the world’s leading brand in fine art music photography representing 90 of the world’s finest music photographers and their archives. Their vast catalog of photography encompasses jazz, blues, and rock imagery spanning several generations through to today’s contemporary music artists and now includes iconic photographs in the world of sports as well. MHG has a robust online presence, featuring over 100,000 images searchable by photographer, music artist, band or concert.

With four locations including: Prince Street in SoHo; the Dream Hotel in the Meatpacking District; the Mens Market at the Americana Manhasset on Long Island; and the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood, the company is at the forefront of culture.