The Police guitarist Andy Summers is not only still on the road as a musician on the world's great stages, but is also internationally one of the greats of his profession as an art photographer. In A Series of Glances, he now collects his best photographs from several decades for the first time in a large, lavishly designed illustrated book.
Since the 1970s, Andy Summers has been one of the great guitarists of his generation as the guitarist of The Police and achieved worldwide fame alongside singer Sting, but also later as a solo artist. But Andy has also been making a name for himself internationally as an art photographer since the 1980s. Several successful book publications and various international exhibitions followed, underlining his exceptional talent in the field of photography as well. In A Series of Glances, Andy now assembles for the first time his best art photographs from several decades in a large, lavishly designed and decorated coffee-table book. These are images full of poetry and mood, mostly in black and white, with which Andy takes us into his world: on his extensive travels through the cultures of different countries and continents, to his portrait and nude photography, whose focus is always on the artistic moment. How exactly can the mood of a moment be captured in a picture? Andy succeeds in combining his music and his photographic art in a unique way. Not only are his images present at all times at his concerts, but various AR elements in the book give the reader an even deeper insight into Andy's life and work online. A Series of Glances becomes perhaps Andy Summer's most personal work ever. AUTHOR: Andy Summers, born in Blackpool, England, in 1942, achieved worldwide fame in the 1970s as guitarist for the British band The Police. The music magazine Rolling Stone voted him in 2011 among the 100 best guitarists of all time. In 1982 he received the Grammy Award. Since his first photo book THORB was published in 1983, Andy has also been internationally recognised as an art photographer. Numerous exhibitions in various countries followed. Andy Summers is still a musician on stage and a photographer behind the camera. SELLING POINTS: . The great photo book of the guitarist of the band The Police: Andy Summers collects his best photographs in a coffee-table book for the first time 350 colour illustrations
"In “A Series of Glances”, Andy now collects for the first time his best art photographs from several decades in a large, lavishly designed and decorated illustrated book." - The Eye of Photography
"This extensive travelogue features many different styles of fine art photography – street, portraiture, landscapes, nudes and still life – but it is the street portraits that really stand out and, presumably, earned the book its title." - Black + White Photography magazine
"The way Summers sees it, there's a great deal of similarity between his photographic and musical work. Both seek to evoke human emotion, both attempt to tell a story or introduce a person in an artistic fashion." - Ultimate Classic Rock
"The Police guitarist combines his music and photography in a performance Friday at The Heights Theater." - NPR Houston
"Andrew Dansby chats with the musician and photographer who plays the Heights Theater Friday about old movies, funky Houston hotels and guitar solos." - Houston Chronicle
"Beyond the iconic riffs and hits lies another realm of Andy’s genius — his aptitude as an art photographer." - WhyNow
"Police guitarist Andy Summers unearths hypnotic photographs that evoke the poetic majesty of music." - Blind Magazine
"A fêted guitarist, known for his distinctive and inventive output for The Police and subsequently as a solo artist, Summers’ photography is no less interesting and accomplished." - Digital Camera Magazine
"Andy Summers has amassed an impressive body of work over the decades — including work that goes far outside of his work as a musician." - InsideHook
"The Police guitarist Andy Summers on the passion for photography he developed while touring in the 1980s." Digital Photographer - Digital Photographer
"His latest collection is A Series of Glances. It includes photos from his far-flung days on the road, through Morocco, China, Brazil and Bolivia. Most interesting of all, there’s hardly any text from Andy Summers in A Series of Glances. Instead, the book’s narrative comes via his lens." - Rock Cellar
My Best Shot: "The Police guitarist has been taking photographs since 1979. Here he discusses the risks he took capturing ‘one of the most impressive religious events on the planet’." - The Guardian
"Andy Summers is best known as a guitarist for the English rock band The Police, popular in the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. But he has also been a passionate and award-winning photographer from the film days through the digital transition to today. Summers has published five books on his photography, the latest from teNeues is A Series of Glances, and has had his work shown at over 60 exhibitions worldwide." - PetaPixel
"The new EP sees the 81-year-old British musician and photographer create new music to accompany the photographs featured in his 2023 book 'A Series Of Glances'. Each track on the disc constitutes an audiovisual snapshot and accompanies one of the photos." - RadioWise
Andy Summers, born in Blackpool, England, in 1942, achieved worldwide fame in the 1970s as guitarist for the British band The Police. The music magazine Rolling Stone voted him in 2011 among the 100 best guitarists of all time. In 1982 he received the Grammy Award. Since his first photo book THORB was published in 1983, Andy has also been internationally recognised as an art photographer. Numerous exhibitions in various countries followed. Andy Summers is still a musician on stage and a photographer behind the camera.
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