Frank Stefanko, Bruce Springsteen, Italy , Rock photography and New Book!

Published: July 20, 2016, 9 p.m.

b'Frank Stefanko is a\\xa0fine art photographer whose work graces the album covers of\\xa0Bruce Springsteen\\u2019s Darkness on\\xa0the\\xa0Edge of Town\\xa0and\\xa0The River,\\xa0Southside Johnny\\u2019s Hearts of Stonealbum cover, and\\xa0Patti Smith\\u2019s The Arista Years1975 / 2000 box set cover. Frank\\u2019s photographs also appear in Bruce Springsteen\\u2019s Live 75/85, Greatest Hits, Tracks, and the Essential Bruce Springsteen. Mr.Stefanko is the author of the book\\xa0Days of Hope and Dreams\\xa0/ an Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen which has recently been released in the\\xa0second edition. He is also the author of\\xa0Patti Smith / American Artist\\xa0which features beautiful images of a young emerging artist; Ms. Smith from 1970 to 1980. Frank\\u2019s work has toured in two museum shows:\\xa0Bruce Springsteen, Troubadour of the Highway, which, at the time, broke attendance records at the Frederick Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, The Cranbrook Museum near Detroit,\\xa0The Experience Music Project in Seattle, and The Newark Museum in New Jersey. In 2012, the\\xa0Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock Photography\\xa0show will tour\\xa0The Columbus Museum, in Georgia,\\xa0The Hunter Museum of American Art, in Tennessee, The\\xa0Gibbes Museum of Art, in South Carolina,\\xa0The Huntsville Museum of Art, in Alabama, and The\\xa0Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, in Mississippi. Mr. Stefanko is represented by\\xa0The Morrison Hotel Gallery, in Soho, New York; the\\xa0Govinda Gallery, in Washington, DC; the\\xa0Fahey / Klein Gallery, in Los Angeles; and\\xa0Snap Galleries\\xa0Ltd. In London.Beyond Frank\\u2019s Rock photography, he has been assembling a portfolio of\\xa0landscape photographs\\xa0that feature places where the footprint of man has not yet touched.'