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Dennis Morris is a British photographer best known for his images of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols. In 1979, he created the logo for the company Public Image Limited and the innovative ''Metal Box'' album packaging.〔metal box stories from John Lydon's public image limited book by Phil Strongman published by Helter Skelter - ISBN 978-1-900924-66-5〕 He then became Art Director of Island Records〔"Destroy: Sex Pistols 1977" () The Guardian London 7 June 2002 retrieved 2010-04-21〕 and designed album covers for the likes of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Marianne Faithfull (''Broken English'') and Bob Marley. In mid-1979 he replaced Don Letts as vocalist of Basement 5, the avant-garde punk rock reggae band. He created their logo, image, photography and graphics and gained a recording contract with Island Records; their albums (''Basement 5 - 1965 to 1980'' and ''Basement in Dub'') were produced by Martin Hannett.〔http://www.nme.com/artists/basement-5〕 He has held exhibitions worldwide (Sydney Opera House, Laforet Museum, Tokyo,〔http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2004/EBB5〕 Contact Toronto and in galleries in London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Stuttgart ...). In June 2005, the Spectrum London gallery had a show of photographs by Morris documenting the daily lives, ceremonies and rituals of the Mowanjum Community Aborigine community.〔("Gallery is blessed by Aborigine" ), BBC, 6 June 2005. Retrieved 18 January 2010.〕 The gallery was blessed by Aboriginal tribe leader, Francis Firebrace, wearing body paint and tribal dress.〔 He was commissioned to show a new body of work at the Today Art Museum in Beijing in 2008 to coincide with the Olympic Cultural programme.〔http://en.artron.net/exhibit/zl.php?zlid=7416〕 A large installation of his punk images (part of the “I am a cliché, Echoes of the Punk Aesthetic” exhibition curated by Emma Lavigne) was shown at the 41st Rencontres d’Arles (France) during the summer of 2010.〔http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A09/C.aspx?VP3=CMS&ID=A09P1155〕 His photographs have become highly collectable, including one body of work (''Southall – a home from home'') bought by English Heritage, on permanent display at Gunnersbury Park Museum in London. In 2013, he collaborated with Shepard Fairey on a new body of work titled ''S.I.D (Superman Is Dead)'' and culminating with an exhibition at Subliminal Projects (LA- USA). http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/15-photos-of-shepard-faireys-superman-is-dead-exhibit-opening-20131216 In April 2014, he exhibited, to critical acclaim, a large collection of his Bob Marley photographs at the Known Gallery in Los Angeles.〔http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/bob-marley-the-stories-behind-17-rare-and-unseen-images-20140325〕 〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpR06HoVIdc〕 ''Growing Up Black'' a collection of his photographs from the Black community in Hackney is part of the permanent collection of the Hackney Museum.〔http://www.hackney.gov.uk/museum-newsletter-winter-2009.pdf〕 The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has acquired some photographs from the ''Growing Up Black'' collection.〔http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/staying-power-dennis-morris/〕 http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/staying-power-dennis-morris/ His photographs have appeared in publications including ''Rolling Stone'', ''Time##, ''People'' magazine, ''V'' magazine, ''GQ##, ''I-D'', ''Vogue'' and the ''Sunday Times''. His work has been used in books such as: ''Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century'', by Greil Marcus, published by Harvard University Press; ''Century'', by Bruce Bernard, published by Phaidon Press; ''Punk'' by Steven Colgrave and Chris Sullivan; ''Rolling Stone: The Complete Covers 1967-1997''. He has been the subject of documentaries and TV programmes in the UK and America. == Books == * (1999) ''Bob Marley: A Rebel Life: A Photobiography'', 1973-1980. Plexus Publishing. ISBN 0-85965-268-8. * (1998) ''Destroy: Sex Pistols 1977''. Creation Books. ISBN 1-84068-058-X. * (1999) "Southall - a Home from Home". Olympus. ISBN 1-84068-054-7 * (2011) "A Bitta PIL" - Parco Publishing. ISBN 978-4-89194-890-0 * (2012) "Growing Up Black" - Autograph ABP - ISBN 978-1-899282-14-2 * (2012) "This is the one: a photo essay on the rise of the Stone Roses" - WSI - ISBN 978-0-9572471-0-9 * (2014) "The Bollocks: a photo essay of the Sex Pistols". Zero + Publishing. ISBN 978-1-937222-40-6 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis Morris (photographer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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