Kevin Cummins (photographer)
Kevin Cummins | |
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 Cummins, Hatchards, London, 2023 | |
| Born | 1953 (age 70–71)[1] Manchester, England |
| Known for | Photography |
| Website | kevincummins |
Kevin Cummins (born 1953)[1] is a British photographer known for his work with rock bands and musicians.[3][4][5][6] His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery[1] and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.[7]
Career
[edit]Cummins studied photography at Salford College.[8] He started photographing rock bands in the mid-1970s in Manchester.[9] Cummins had a 25-year association with the NME,[10] including 10 years as their chief photographer.[11] He has photographed numerous bands and musicians. His images have been seen as a contributing factor in the rise of the Madchester and Cool Britannia scenes.[12]
Cummins was instrumental in establishing City Life,[13] Manchester's what's on guide and was a founding contributor to The Face, the style magazine where he won an award for Magazine Cover of the Year.[14]
Cummins's photographs have been used extensively in cinema and TV documentaries, including Grant Gee's Joy Division and John Dower's Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop.[15]
He worked extensively for the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester when it opened in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. He shoots regularly for the National Theatre in London, most recently for Harper Regan and Mrs. Affleck.[16]
A lifelong Manchester City F.C. supporter,[17] Cummins documented City's final season at Maine Road in the book We're Not Really Here.[18]
In 2005, British pop artist Peter Blake produced a screen print based on one of Cummins' Joy Division prints.[19]
Publications
[edit]- The Smiths and Beyond (2002)
- We're Not Really Here: Manchester City's Final Season at Maine Road[18]
- Juvenes (2007). Edition of 226 copies.[20]
- Joy Division: Juvenes. Cassell, 2021. ISBN 978-1788402712.[21]
- Manchester: Looking For the Light Through the Pouring Rain[22][23]
- Joy Division (Rizzoli, 2010)
- New Order (Rizzoli, 2015)
- Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of the Manic St Preachers. London: Faber & Faber, 2014. ISBN 978-0571312139.[24]
- Telling Stories: Photographs of The Fall. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2022. With a foreword by Simon Armitage. ISBN 978-1784728250.
Exhibitions
[edit]Solo exhibitions
[edit]- 1981 Stage Struck, Royal Exchange, Manchester[citation needed]
- 1983 Access all Areas, Royal Exchange, Manchester[citation needed]
- 1985 Silent Faces, Oldham City Art Gallery[citation needed]
- 1986 Cummins 10, Cornerhouse, Manchester (part of the Festival of the Tenth Summer[25])
- 1986–96 The Way We Were, Wigan Heritage Centre[citation needed]
- 1994 Salfordians, Salford City Art Gallery[citation needed]
- 2002 The Smiths and Beyond, Proud Central, London[26]
- 2003 We're Not Really Here, Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester[17]
- 2006 Arca: Joy Division, Paul Stolper Gallery, London[27]
- 2009 The Crucial 30: Post Punk Liverpool, The Hard Day's Night Hotel Gallery, Liverpool[28]
- 2012: Exemplar: Joy Division, Manchester Photographic Gallery, Manchester[29]
- 2014: New Order, Manchester Photographic Gallery, Manchester[30][31]
Group exhibitions
[edit]- 1999 Icons of Pop, National Portrait Gallery, London, included three of Cummins' photographs[1]
Awards and honours
[edit]In November 2009, Cummins was awarded an Outstanding Contribution to Music Photography award by the music industry website: Record of the Day.[32]
In 2015 Cummins was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Arts) by Manchester Metropolitan University.[33]
Collections
[edit]Cummins' work is held in the following permanent collections:
- National Portrait Gallery, London: 4 prints (as of 12 October 2022)[1]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 7 prints (as of 12 October 2022)[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Kevin Cummins - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ Phillips, Sarah (2011). "Photographer Kevin Cummins's best shot". theguardian.com. The Guardian.
- ^ Cummins, Kevin. "Richey Edwards". The Observer. 14 December 2008. Retrieved on 3 February 2009
- ^ Savage, Jon. "Spit and polish". The Guardian. 24 September 1999. Retrieved on 3 February 2009.
- ^ "'My family were horrified': Unseen Sex Pistols photos to go on show in London". The Guardian. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "25 things you didn't know about The Stone Roses: NME recreates an iconic cover by Kevin Cummins". nme.com. New Musical Express. Archived from the original on 19 April 2009.
- ^ a b Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Search Results - V&A Explore the Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Rock can be a hard place - Media, News - The Independent". 27 September 2009. Archived from the original on 27 September 2009.
- ^ Cummins, Kevin (2007). "Closer to the birth of a music legend". theguardian.com. The Observer.
- ^ "Photographer Kevin Cummins and Steven Wells honoured at music industry awards". nme.com. New Musical Express. 27 November 2009.
- ^ "Wilson: a portrait". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Biography of Kevin Cummins which appears on Red Eye's site" (PDF).
- ^ "Short biography on Vauxhall's Style Council website (takes quite a long time to load up)". Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
- ^ "Kevin Cummins". Rockarchive. Retrieved on 3 February 2009.
- ^ "Kevin Cummins (III)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 3 February 2009.
- ^ "NT : What's On : Productions : Mrs Affleck". National Theatre. Retrieved on 3 February 2009.
- ^ a b "Maine Road finale charted". BBC News. 9 September 2003.
- ^ a b We're Not Really Here: Manchester City's Final Season at Maine Road (2003) [ISBN missing]
- ^ "Peter Blake Love Portfolio Archived 31 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine". Paul Stolper. Retrieved on 3 February 2009.
- ^ "Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs Of Kevin Cummins - Record Collector Magazine". 2008. Retrieved 9 September 2021. [ISBN missing]
- ^ "Joy Division: Photographer Kevin Cummins on capturing the post-punk icons". BBC News. 27 October 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Manchester: Looking for the Light Through the Pouring Rain". newstatesman.com. New Statesman. 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2021. [ISBN missing]
- ^ "Kevin Cummins on Manchester music". The Guardian. 19 September 2009. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ Nightingale, Jo (2014). "Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins : book review". Faber & Faber. Retrieved 9 September 2021. [ISBN missing]
- ^ "cerysmaticfactory.info". cerysmaticfactory.info.
- ^ "Look back in angst". theguardian.com. 6 April 2002.
- ^ "Paul Stolper Gallery". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2009.
- ^ Sampson, Kevin (2009). "From Berlin to Bootle". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 20 May 2009.
- ^ Anderson, Sarah (16 January 2012). "Beautiful Joy Division shots from Kevin Cummins' new exhibition". Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "New Order by Kevin Cummins - a new show in Manchester". The Guardian. 24 June 2014. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ Walters, Sarah (10 June 2014). "Never before seen photos of New Order in Manchester exhibition". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Record of the Day full list of 2009 awards". Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
- ^ "Kevin Cummins receives honorary degree". mmu.ac.uk. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University. 2015.
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