Baron Wolman – Famous Rolling Stone magazine Photographer
Baron Wolman is one of the most well-known photographers of the rock and roll years. He is infamous for his photographs of people like Jimi Hendrix and other pioneer and revolutionary musical artists. What started out as being the chief photographer for a new magazine known as Rolling Stones, he has claimed some of the best and most recognizable photographs as his own work.
As mentioned, his start in photography was certainly anything but glamorous. In fact, he started out just doing your average photography around the house. It became a hobby for him. In fact, he did not do anything professionally. He had a good friend of his who had this idea about starting a magazine known as Rolling Stone. His friend, only a young buck at 21 years old asked his older friend, Baron Wolman who was 30 years old at the time if he would like to help with the photography side of it. Thus, this was the start of his professional career.
Baron Wolman still comments to this day how the music industry was so much different then in comparison to now days. Back then, he says that the musicians were open and willing to show you their real self. When you took pictures of them, they were friendly and responsive to your suggestions and ideas. As well, he always had free reign with them. Many of them would have considered Baron Wolman their friend. Baron was always able to go backstage after concerts to visit with them and photograph them.
In today’s day and age, the musicians distance themselves. They feel like they have to protect themselves from the photographers. In fact, they will consistently try to avoid them. This is probably the paranoia led on by the paparazzi that always seems to follow them. Few of them now days have the class that Baron Wolman did with his photography subjects.
While Baron Wolman is most well-known for his works with the Rolling Stone magazine that was relatively short lived. He decided to leave Rolling Stone only after a few years to pursue other photography endeavors. There are no other works that are as popular as the early rock and roll photography that he has done, but he says he is equally proud of his later work.
Almost immediately after leaving Rolling Stone he went to work with the Oakland Raiders. He followed them around for a while just taking action photographs of them while playing. He also took one of the most memorable photographs of John Madden and the rest of his team after a successful year.
From there, Baron Wolman was invited to be a part of the blimp still taking shots for the NFL. However, that quickly peaked an interest in aerial photography. In fact, he was so interested that he took his interest to the next level. He decided to go to flight school and become a pilot. He still enjoys flying and what aerial photography provides. He spent many years simply taking photographs from his own personal plane. These pictures were so beautiful that they were published inside of a book that became very popular among pilots and anyone else who was interested in aerial point of views.
Baron Wolman still is an active photographer who enjoys his work. He likes changing it up and doing different things. He even became interest in nude photography. Baron actually ended up teaching a class on the subject at the collegiate level. He is passionate about his work, and that separates him from many of the other average photographers.
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