AN EYE FOR MUSIC
Music Images for the Millennium
A new photographic exhibition 
by Marc Marnie

12th January - 29th February 2000,  Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 


"a genius!" Dizzy Gillespie


An Eye For Music is a long-over due exhibition by one of Scotland's leading photographers.

Marc Marnie's first major exhibition for over 10 years features 50 new photographs of the 
most influential musicians of the last decade - and the next millennium.

An Eye For Music includes such legendary names as James Brown, Chuck Berry, Liam Gallagher
(Oasis), Keith Flint (Prodigy), k d laing, Nico, John Cale, Peggy Seeger, Jarvis Cocker 
(Pulp), Dick Dale and John Prine.

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, rock, folk, 
blues and world.    

Working mainly in black and white and 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.  

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 long enough to capture unique perspectives on film.

"Surface noise" is how Marc describes what he is trying to capture in a photograph.   
Those otherwise distracting little features which are essential to the feel of the 
moment - like the crackling hiss behind Louis Armstrong's early 78s, compared with 
the sonic transparency of digital recordings.    

Marc's pictures let us glimpse behind the music;  his vision and intuitive approach 
get to the heart of things, evoking the essential spirit of the performer, both on and
off stage. 

An Eye For Music was commissioned by Celtic Connections.  

Marc will also be official photographer at Blues 2000, Edinburgh's premier new Blues Festival.

For more information, please email Morag Neil: morag@neil1.demon.co.uk