The Wolman Fellowship Extends To Its Third Year

Iconic images of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner and numerous other Hall of Fame Inductees are now available from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Taken by renowned photographer and former Rolling Stone Chief Photographer, Baron Wolman, these images are part of a trove of legendary photographs that Wolman bequeathed the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. These limited-edition archival prints were made by Wolman for the expressed purpose of raising funds to support the educational activities of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. They can be purchased at the museum’s retail locations and online store: shop.rockhall.com.

Wolman, who gifted the entirety of his personal collection to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame just prior to his death in 2020, began his professional photographic career in West Berlin in the 1960s while stationed with U.S. Army military intelligence, and sold his first photographic essay of images of life behind the then-new Berlin Wall. After his discharge, he moved from Germany to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco, where he served as Rolling Stone’s first photographer.

“Baron was thrilled to have his entire life’s work preserved at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum. He loved how we preserve artifacts and make them available to the world so that we cherish and protect not only his life’s work, but also his life’s mission of inspiring the next generation of photographers through the Wolman fellowship,” said Greg Harris, President & CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum.

These prints, created under Wolman’s supervision, are available in limited edition quantities and can be purchased either framed or unframed. Proceeds from the sale of the prints will go towards supporting the preservation of his collection as well as benefiting the museum’s ongoing educational activities that provide online and on-site educational tools to thousands of schools around the globe, as well as community programs, artifact preservation and our Library & Archives.

The Wolman Fellowship, currently in its third year, was established by Wolman’s estate in 2020, with a mission to preserve his legacy of mentoring young photographers.

The Rock Hall’s mission to honor the artists whose music connects us all, and its archives and collection are a part of the core of that mission. The Baron Wolman Collection complements the Rock Hall’s growing collection of archives and artifacts, and precedes its expansion plans, which will add additional space for its Library & Archives to house archives accessible to the public.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is open to the public daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST (through 8pm EST on Thursday, Friday and Saturday during the summer season) with advance tickets required at rockhall.com. Admission is free to Cleveland residents through the CLE VIP program (check if you qualify at https://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/find-my-ward).

LINK TO IMAGES (FOR MEDIA USE ONLY): 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qeabnsvzwitbseyoiv48r/h?rlkey=bkixpdmwyoi6g7vhy42k5gebn&dl=0

Credit: Courtesy of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame / Baron Wolman Estate

LINK TO COLLECTION PAGE: https://shop.rockhall.com/pages/baron-wolman-collection

ABOUT BARON WOLMAN 

Baron Wolman’s photographs of musicians in the late Sixties encapsulate an unparalleled time in American history. As the first chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, Wolman not only documented the era but helped to define it in images for subsequent generations of fans.

In 1967, a 21-year-old journalist named Jann Wenner gathered some friends and started the revolutionary rock music publication Rolling Stone, a newsprint magazine that captured the era and defined it in print and pictures. Among the friends that Wenner recruited for the project was Wolman, who had been working as a freelance photographer for magazines like Life and Look. Wolman was hired as the first chief photographer for Rolling Stone.

During his tenure at Rolling Stone, Wolman’s lens captured the icons of 1960s rock and pop, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, the Who, and many others. Wolman’s unique access to his subjects, combined with his keen eye, gave his photographs an up-close-and-personal quality that was rare and unprecedented.
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