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“Looking back now, it’s clear that Jini Dellaccio is the premier visual interpreter for Northwest rock and roll artists during the ’60s and ’70s. Jini truly gave Northwest rock and roll its ‘mystique’. Here’s proof.” ~ Barrie R. Jackson from the Introduction
Today marks the 45th anniversary of the Beatles first appearance in Washington State. It was a few years before this historic event that Jini Dellaccio picked up a camera and started photographing the music scene in the Northwest.
Before long, Dellaccio was firmly entrenched at the center of the Northwest rock scene. Northwest bands like The Wailers, The Sonics, the Bards, and the Daily Flash all fell under Deallaccio’s lens. And artists like Merrilee Rush, Neil Young, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend were captured as well.
The Wailers, 1964Now, for the first time, a collection; albeit a drop in the bucket of her vast archive, of Dellaccio’s images are available in book form. 30 memorable images grace the pages of Rock & Roll : Jini Dellaccio which has just been published by The Jini Dellaccio Collection. In addition to the seminal photographs the book includes essays by Larry Reid, as well as an introduction by Barrie R. Jackson, and a biographical note by Barry Herem.
The book is printed in an edition of 2000 copies with 350 copies to be offered signed by Dellaccio and is available exclusively at Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers.
Details:
Dellaccio, Jini. Rock & Roll : Jini Dellaccio. Seattle: The Jini Dellaccio Collection, 2009. First Edition. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. 12″ x 12″. Unpaginated [32pp.] With essays by Larry Reid, as well as an introduction by Barrie R. Jackson, and a biographical note by Barry Herem. Art direction & design by Chuck Pennington. Thirty full-page images, and a handful in color, highlighting the work of this little-known photographer who was at the center of the 1960’s Northwest rock scene. $45
Signed edition $75