By Fred Starr

Los Angeles, CA(Hollywood Today)12/6/11/– Barnes & Noble at The Grove (189 The Grove Drive, Fairfax and 3^rd, Farmer’s Market, Los Angeles 90036) will welcome renowned music photographer Henry Diltz on Saturday, Dec. 10, starting at 2 p.m.
Diltz will present a slide show featuring iconic images from his just-published book, Unpainted Faces (Morrison Hotel Publishing), a collection of more than 150 of his classic black & white photographs. A special Q&A and book signing will follow.

Barnes & Noble store officials expect a large crowd and will start handing out wristbands at 9 a.m. to fans who purchase a copy of Unpainted Faces.

Diltz is one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated photographers. His work has graced more than 300 album covers since the mid-’60s, and appeared in books, magazines and newspapers worldwide.

His singular artistic style has produced powerful photographic essays of Woodstock, the Monterey International Pop Festival, The Doors, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Eagles, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, America, and many others. Diltz’s Unpainted Faces features rare and well-known images of those and dozens more artists and events.

A founding member of the Modern Folk Quartet (whose 1965 single “This Could Be the Night” was produced by Phil Spector), Diltz is as much at home as a musician on tour as he is a visual historian of the last four decades of popular music.

For Henry, taking pictures began with a $20 second-hand Kodak Pony camera purchased on tour with MFQ, just as a goof to kill time on the road. A lack of formal photographic training didn’t get in his way; Diltz learned quickly. When MFQ disbanded in 1966, he went from amateur to pro when his shots were used for a Lovin’ Spoonful album cover. His camera has been his chief instrument ever since.

The rapport Henry has with his musician friends, along with his down-to-earth-grin and contagious laugh, has always enabled him to capture candid shots that convey a rare feeling of trust and intimacy with his subjects.

A founding partner in the Morrison Hotel Gallery, which exclusively publishes and represents his work, Diltz continues his distinguished photographic career today, generating new and vibrant images that inspire the rock ‘n’ roll fan in each of us.

Unpainted Faces will be available for purchase exclusively at the Dec. 4 Barnes & Noble book signing and is also available directly from www.morrisonhotelgallery.com.

About Morrison Hotel Publishing

Morrison Hotel Publishing is a division of the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City. Celebrating its 10-year anniversary in October 2011, the Gallery was founded in 2001 by Henry Diltz, former record company executive Peter Blachley, and former independent record store owner Rich Horowitz. The Gallery has since grown to become a major brand in fine art music photography, earning the respect of peers, artists and music fans and collectors alike.

Morrison Hotel Gallery recently launched a special book publishing partnership with Rare Cool Stuff Unltd., the pop culture archival company co-founded by Geoff Gans. A five-time Grammy Award-nominated art director/designer and producer, Gans has designed a series of portfolio books for Morrison Hotel Publishing in conjunction with photography exhibitions held at the Gallery. These limited-edition books are hand-signed by each photographer and are available exclusively to buyers and subscribers through the Morrison Hotel Gallery mailing list and their retail galleries.

Unpainted Faces is the first in a separate series of books of Henry Diltz’s photographs that RCS is producing for Morrison Hotel Publishing. Next in the series: Painted Faces, a deluxe hard-bound collection of his iconic color images, to be published in 2012. www..morrisonhotelgallery.com.