Listen: Imagining American Music visually maps the history of rock music in the United States, as seen by the American photographer Rhona Bitner, whose latest exhibition is on view from May 6 until August 31, 2017, at the Fondation Bru in Venice, Italy. Rhona Bitner started this series by photographing CBGB, the iconic punk temple on the Bowery in New York, before it definitively shut its doors in October 2006. That photograph, taken a few days before Patti Smith’s closing concert, gave rise to a throng of other images. Together, they are an attempt to create a visual record of the intimate architecture of American music, through its recording studios, clubs, concert halls, show and dance venues, churches, motel rooms, festivals, sports grounds, and prisons. Rhona Bitner’s vast photographic oeuvre spans over a decade, comprises some 350 images, and constitutes a private archive of this musical heritage.
Rhona Bitner, Listen: Imagining American Music
May 6 to August 31, 2017
Palazzetto Bru Zane
San Polo, 2368
30125 Venice
Italy
www.fondation-bru.org
http://rhonabitner.com
