The best music photography?

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Pier Nicola D'Amico's portrait of Janelle Monae, commissioned for the cover of Paste magazine, won in the Breaking a Band category.

Billboard and PDN recently ran a contest to determine the best music photos from the past year, and PDN’s website now features a gallery for the “Year in Music Moment” winners. “Photographers from across the U.S. submitted incredible images of musicians at their best and the fans who follow them,” the site says. “We congratulate the tenacious photographers who captured these amazing images while factoring in light shows, unpredictable talent, and at times perhaps asking themselves, Can music this loud contribute to camera shake?”

The contest’s categories were Breaking a Band, Crowd, Live Music, Series, and Spontaneous Moment. And the judges were a mix of Billboard and PDN staffers, plus execs from Roadrunner Records and Epic. Actually, the judges were divided into “professional” and “amateur.” Had to laugh when I saw that Mick Rock was listed as an amateur judge. Mick “Raw Power” Rock! I guess it’s true that people are never relieved of the burden of having to prove themselves.

There’s more on the contest here.

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This entry was written by Kristina Feliciano and posted on 10/06/2009 at 9:01 am and filed under news & commentary with tags , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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