Gered mankowitz biography examples
Gered Mankowitz was born in London in , the first son of the author and screen writer Wolf Mankowitz and the psychotherapist Ann Mankowitz....
Gered Mankowitz is an English photographer who has focused his career in the music industry.
Mankowitz has shot just about everyone: Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull, Elton John, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix – and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
What makes his photographs stand out is how they capture the essence of his subjects. While other photographers might have overly stylised a shoot with Hendrix, Mankowitz just let a young kid clad in second-hand clothing tell jokes and smoke cigarettes.
He let Jimi be Jimi.
He is particularly known for four novels— Make Me an Offer (), A Kid for Two Farthings (), My Old Man's a Dustman and Expresso Bongo ()—and other.“I was just a kid myself and, this might sound absurdly pretentious, but I just wanted my subjects to be my heroes. I didn’t want my style to get in the way and I tried to treat them all with dignity.”
Mankowitz got an apprenticeship at Camera Press when he was just 15-years-old, before getting his first freelance gig in 1963 shooting clean-cut folk duo Chad & Jeremy singing at a coffee bar in Mayfair.
Through them he met 60s siren Marianne Faithfull and the rest is history. “I fell com