Leica Portrait: Jonathan Mannion
A Cleveland, Ohio native, Jonathan Mannion began capturing images of up-and-coming urban music superstars after working for a year with world-renowned photographer Richard Avedon. In 1996, he launched his professional career by shooting the photographs for the classic hip-hop album “Reasonable Doubt” by Jay-Z. In the years since, Jonathan’s photography has grown alongside the culture he so loves, helping to visually define an era of urban music. As DJ Quik once pointed out to him, the world sees hip-hop through his eyes. However, he is modestly circumspect about his role. “I’m just a messenger,” he observes, “and I’ve been given a talent to document an extremely important era of music history. I have a love for hip-hop that goes back to when I was a teenager, and I feel blessed to have had the chance to shoot the artists I’ve worked with. I’ve had the opportunity to grow with them and the photos I’ve shot over the years have become visual bullet points of their creative evolution and mine.”
A nice little documentary on visual artist and producer Teebs, always found his record cover artworks intriguing. Beautiful pieces…
(via greenteasession)
Bon Iver, aka Justin Vernon, has announced that four years on from the release of his debut album For Emma, Forever Ago, he will be releasing a new self-titled album on 21 June. The album, which will be released through Jagjaguwar, was recorded and mixed by Vernon and brother Nate over the past three years at a former veterinarian’s clinic in Wisconsin and features regular collaborators Sean Carey, Mike Noyce, and Matt McCaughan. The cover art was created by Gregory Euclide, an artist based in Minnesota.
