"My Generation", FRANK ZAPPA - Mothers Of Invention, 1971 Photograph

From The Who to The Rolling Stones, by way of Frank Zappa, Ten Years After, Jimmy Page and Tina Turner, it is one of the richest periods of the Anglo-Saxon rock scene that these works bring back to life. Famous to the four corners of the planet, they are the heroes of My Generation.

Because there cannot be a winner in the contest between the power of the written word and the impact of the image, because nothing accords itself better with a myth than a legend, and because a still image is never as talkative as we would like it to be, the characters of Bruno Ducourants photo-paintings end up talking for themselves.

In this marriage-madness where black and white photos are reanimated with colour, the word marries the picture and the instant rediscovers its vocabulary. Layerings, cascade titles or even maelstroms of names: the careers read themselves in watermark. Music and musicians melt into scene curtains and light effects.


Freelance photojournalist between 1968 and 1980, Bruno Ducourant collaborated notably with the music magazines Rock & Folk, Extra and Best. For the most part unknown to the public, the photos he uses for My Generation were shot during that period in London, Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris.