RAW Talk 040: Bob Gruen, John and Yoko's Personal Photographer

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Jared Polin

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4.4 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

I had the opportunity to head up to New York City to interview one of the most famous Rock Photographers ever, Bob Gruen. Bob captured Rock and Roll in its heyday, living with bands, joining them on the road and sharing in the lifestyle. He captured one of the most recognizable images in the history of music photography: John Lennon wearing his New York City T-Shirt.

Could you image being asked to be John and Yoko's personal photographer? Being that close to one of the most respected and successful musicians of all time? Bob was more than just a photographer for them, he was their friend.

I sat down with Bob in his studio in NYC for this candid conversation that could shave gone on for hours. The stories are awe inspiring and leave you wanting to hear more. Lucky for you a documentary on Bob's work was just released on Showtime so please check your local listings for the viewing schedule.

To check out Bob's photo books you can do an amazon search for Bob Gruen.

Enjoy this once in a lifetime conversation with Bob Gruen.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Jared Polan Froono's Photo.com here with Rawl Talk episode number 40.
0:11.9	I'll make sure I try to get that right each week.
0:14.0	For some reason, I keep getting the numbers messed up, Stephen.
0:16.2	I don't know why.
0:17.3	Ari gets me right.
0:18.2	It says 40.
0:19.5	So on this week's episode, we have the largest guest we've ever
0:22.9	had, not large in size, but just the most famous photographer that we've had on, I believe.
0:29.8	We have Bob Gruen coming up. Ari and I went up to New York City to sit in Bob's studio
0:34.6	to basically hear amazing stories for over a half an hour about working
0:39.5	with John Lennon and Ike and Tina Turner. It's fantastic. So we're going to do an intro to that
0:44.3	coming up. But before we do that, Stephen, yes, sir. It's time for your new Steven's news.
0:51.6	Photo news. Whoa, hello, Steven.
0:54.3	You like that?
0:55.0	That's going to be my new intro.
0:55.9	That's fantastic, Stephen.
0:57.7	What do we have this week?
0:59.6	A bunch of stuff, actually.
1:01.2	Some pretty in-depth articles that we've got to talk about this week.
1:03.9	Some important stuff.
1:05.4	First off, Apple did the whole WDCC thing this week, which is huge.
1:10.2	We got iOS 7 coming out. It's going to be in the
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