Rocky Schenck

Rocky Schenck
Born (1955-04-18) April 18, 1955 (age 69)
Austin, Texas
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Photographer
  • music video director
Years active1975–present[1]

Rocky Schenck (born April 18, 1955)[2][3] is an American photographer and music video director.[4][5] Schenck has photographed several album covers and has written and directed numerous music videos and short films. He has shot fashion, editorial and portraits for magazines such as Vogue,[1] Rolling Stone,[1] Time,[6] New York Times,[6] Entertainment Weekly,[1] and others. Schenck has collaborated with many personalities in the music and entertainment worlds, including Alice in Chains,[7] Jerry Cantrell,[8] Adele,[9] Ozzy Osbourne,[7] John Prine ,[7] Robert Plant,[9] Willie Nelson,[7] B.B. King,[6] Stevie Nicks,[6] Nick Cave,[9] P.J. Harvey,[9] Annie Lennox, Alison Krauss,[6] Ray Bradbury,[6] Ellen DeGeneres,[6] Baz Luhrmann,[6] Kylie Minogue,[7] T-Bone Burnett, Joni Mitchell,[7] The Cramps,[6] Tom Cruise,[6] Johnny Mathis,[6] Linda Ronstadt,[6] Sheryl Crow,[7] Josh Duhamel,[6] Diana Krall,[9] Brian Wilson,[9] Donna Summer,[7] Nicole Kidman,[10] Gary Coleman,[6] k.d. lang,[6] Jerry Lee Lewis,[6] Natalie Cole,[7] Gloria Estefan,[9] Neil Diamond,[7] Laurence Fishburne,[11] Gladys Knight,[6] Frances Bean Cobain,[12] and Rod Stewart.[6]

  1. ^ a b c d Schonauer, David. "Photographer Profile - Rocky Schenck: "Movies were the closest things to the dreams I was having"". August 16, 2016.
  2. ^ "Rocky Schenck". BBC.
  3. ^ "Dream Life: The Incandescent Unreality of Rocky Schenck". Texas Monthly. August 24, 2016.
  4. ^ "Rocky Schenck, The Recurring Dream". The Eye of Photography. 16 September 2016.
  5. ^ Catmull, Katherine (November 7, 2003). "A World Slowly Liquefying: Rocky Schenck comes home for celebrations of his dreamlike art photography". Austin Chronicle.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Cite error: The named reference bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Rocky Schenck - Credits". All Music.
  8. ^ "Boggy Depot - Jerry Cantrell". AllMusic. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Cite error: The named reference mvdbase was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "Artwork by Rocky Schenck - Nicole Kidman (1994)". Artstack.
  11. ^ "Larry Fishburne by Michael O'Keefe". Bomb Magazine. April 1, 1992.
  12. ^ "Frances Bean Cobain: Fashion's Timely New Muse". Rolling Stone. August 18, 2011.