Alain Dister

Alain Dister (born in 1941 -) is a journalist and photographer born with Lyon (the Rhone).

Essential information

Alain Dister is the author of many works concerning the rock'n'roll. He worked for the specialized magazine Rock & Folk . Its work, Oh hippie, days! , gives particularly well an account of America of the end of the year 60 (sexual release, drugs, psychedelic music, etc), which it has even lived him, with a key Beat Generation (prone on which it wrote a book besides).

Famous photographer, in particular known for his photographs of the world of the rock' roll and the United States of the years 1960, it exposes his works in various museums and galleries throughout the world. At this hour, Alain Dister is producer for France Culture and art critic for the review " Knowledge of Arts". He lives and works in Paris and in Burgundy.

Exposures

1973: Sequences and Conséquences , Museum of Modern art, Paris, France
1983: the City in its gardens , CNAC G. Pompidou, Paris, France
1990: Visions off the Road , Palate of Beautiful arts, Charleroi, Belgium
1991: Free Fontana Collezione , Museo d' Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy
1994: the Young girl in the city, Gallery of the Day/Agnes B, Paris, France
1997: Rock' Roll Attitudes, Photographic Space of the City, Paris, France
1998: Macadam Blues , FNAC Star, Paris, France
1999: Agnes B gallery Shibuya , Tokyo, Japan
1999: Laure Fardoulis , Aachen, Germany
1999: AND' S gallery , Osaka, Japan
2000: Pardoned Mansion Gallery , New York, the United States

Works

Punk rockers! (2006)
Colors sixties (2006)
Oh hippie, days! notebooks American 1966-1969 (2001, republished in 2006)
Minimum Rock' Roll, N° 2: Motors, Dragsters, Highways of the hell (2005)
Grateful Dead: a Californian legend (2004)
Ezy to wrinkle: on a journey with Jimi Hendrix (1998)
Happy generation: the generation hallucinated (1997)
Cultures rock'n'roll (1996)
To live quickly: Chronicles of the automobile race (1995)
Of or do you come Johnny? (1993)
the Age of the rock'n'roll (1992)
The Cleans (1989)
It' S only rock' roll (1989)
Led Zeppelin: an illustration of Heavy Metal (1980)
the Book of Pink Floyd (1978)
Beatles (1975, republished in 2004)

He is also the scenario writer of a cartoon devoted to the Rock'n'roll, Pop & Rock & Colégram (1978), which he created with the draftsmen Gotlib and Solé.

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