2nd-30th April 2007 A rare to chance to riffle through the back pages of one of Scotland’s leading photographers. marc marnie has amassed a formidable back catalogue of photographs, a small selection of which will be included in this new exhibition, curated especially for NEAC. Rock stars and jazz musicians will share the walls with actors and acrobats,
alongside more personal images from the photographer’s life.
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 'Caesar Twins' from marc marnie's 'Too Late to Stop Now' collection |
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MARC MARNIE'S Showing in THE VILLAGE, South Fort St, Leith.
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OK COMPUTER Showing
in THE VILLAGE, South Fort St, Leith.
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 Dark Angel by marc marnie (from OK Computer) |
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CITY OF TINY LIGHTS
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PEEPSHOW1993-2003
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"An Eye For Music"The Queen's Hall, EdinburghFebruary 25th - March 25th 2002Final
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"FINDERS KEEPERS" marc marnie presents Finders Keepers a great and mighty feat of exploration ... A wonderful photographic record of Benchtours and The Lemon Tree's most ambitious project to date - Finders Keepers. During a 2 month outreach programme the company took music, drama, video, and visual art workshops out to over 120 people at Rosehill, Burnside and West Park Day Centres, Beechwood and Marlpool Schools, as well as running Lemon Tree based workshops with people from the Community Placement group, Reach-Out, Cornerstone and individuals from all over the city. Although not everyone could participate directly in the stage production at The Lemon Tree on 30th November, 1st and 2nd December because of the intensive rehearsal periods required in the run-up to performance, everyone contributed to the process of making Finders Keepers and many were involved in video sequences which were an integral part of the finished performance. Marcıs exhibition charts the various stages of the project and provides some remarkable images by anyone's standards. Click here to see the whole exhibition
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Andrew's Dance (Finders Keepers) |
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"SEX & DRUGS & ROCK'N'ROLL"ArtiZIN GALLERY 29b Dundas Street, Edinburgh 21 November - 1 December marc marnie - The Dark Man of the Dark Room. Able to capture images of musicians in a single shot, leaping upon tall stages into the wings to snap a singer, cajole a country western star or beg a Blues man for a photograph. This legendary lens man shows at ArtiZIN for the first time. Lucky us! His Leith home and studio are an array of organised chaos. Photographs and prints are stacked in piles knee deep, yet marc knows what is in each one. Music lines the walls of his lounge and if he doesn't like what's being sold on the music market, he makes his own compilations. With a quick eye and a sixth sense for the "right place, right time" opportunity, Marc has captured some of the greatest stars in the Music Business. The images are intimate and personal, spontaneous and expressive. He disdains the paparazzi style of stealing a shot but believes a picture should be given to you, not taken from the subject. This could account for the respect and attention he receives from the people he photographs. Marc himself is quiet and self-effacing, but the power and energy he captures on film, says it all.marc marnie resides in Leith, Edinburgh. |
AN EYE FOR MUSICMusic Images for the Millenniummarc marnie - Photographer with an Eye for Music marc marnie has spent nearly a quarter of a century photographing thousands of musicians on stage and in his Edinburgh studio. His portfolio reads like a WHO'S WHO of modern music- jazz, rock, classical, folk, blues and World. Working mainly in black and white and often in very low light environments he has caught in the act many of the great musical artists of the twentieth century and many of the rising stars of the twenty first. Miles Davis, Oasis, Dizzy Gillespie, Willie Nelson, John Lee Hooker, all feature in his back catalogue. Included in this exhibition will be such names as Nico, James Brown, John Cale, Evelyn Glennie, Peggy Seeger, Chuck Berry and Emmylou Harris. His unique approach and the resulting work have been variously described as unconventional, instinctive, maverick, uncompromising, and provocative. Whatever it is - it works - his passion for his craft and his sympathy for his subjects have allowed him to engage even the most temperamental of performers for long enough to capture unique perspectives on film. And they like his work too - Miles Davis, Stephane Grappelli, Dizzy Gillespie and many others have bought and used his pictures. Surface Noise is how marc describes what he is trying to capture in a photograph- those otherwise distracting little features which are essential to capturing the feel of the moment - like the crackling hiss behind Louis Armstrong's early 78's compared with the sonic transparency of modern digital recordings, the human touch. marc's pictures let us glimpse behind the music, his vision and intuitive approach get to the heart of things evoking the time and place of the performance and the spirit of the performer. Marc resolutely declares himself a craftsman rather than an artist - though his devotees would disagree. See the exhibition and decide for yourself... |
NICO (An Eye For Music) |
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ARCHIVE EXHIBITION
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