848 The Rolling Stones by Michael Joseph
I could not help myself … after I researched my greatest influences in photography, I remembered the incomparable Michael Joseph. He is the advertising photographer who in the 1960s and 70s stunned us with his opulent and often outrageous tableaux vivants; and the one I still think of as one of the greatest photos ever, for the gatefold of the album: Beggars Banquet by the Rolling Stones (The London Magazine) ... I have an essay THE ROLLING STONES in my book en.light.en.ment (proud)
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While you
immerse yourself in the photo, listen to the song they composed and first recorded at the
time of that photoshoot.