Ed Gallucci (born 1947) is an American photographer currently living in South Dakota. He is the first magazine photographer to photograph Bruce Springsteen and 40 covers of Newsweek in the 1970’s thru 1990’s.

Biography

Ed Gallucci was born in the

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section of

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in 1947, the son of Italian immigrants who had migrated from the Calabria region of southern Italy to New York City. During his early years, the family moved to

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, where he attended

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and was known as "the artist". After graduation he moved to Kansas City, Missouri and studied graphic design and photography at the

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, where he earned a BFA degree.

Early work

In December 1972, after seeing the performer play at Kenny's Castaways club on New York's

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, Ed Gallucci took the photographs that accompanied the first interview/profile of Bruce Springsteen, in ''

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'' magazine, written by editor-in-chief

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had not yet been named, have only recently been unearthed and rediscovered. Gallucci was a regular contributor to ''Crawdaddy'', photographing Muhammad Ali,

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, Jerry Garcia, Paul Simon, Al Green,

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, Stevie Wonder, Robert Altman,

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and many others for the magazine. His work also appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Gallucci Studio, Inc.

After exhibiting his work at

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in the late 1970s, Gallucci was encouraged to make the switch from editorial to commercial studio photography. Gallucci Studio Inc. was established in

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and occupied four different addresses between 1978 and 1998. Under these auspices Gallucci shot hundreds of magazine spreads and covers for: ''

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'', '' Business Week'', '' Fortune'', '' U.S. News & World Report'', ''

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'', '' Longevity'', ''

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'', '' PC Magazine'', '' Psychology Today'', ''

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'', ''Video Review'', '' Weight Watchers'', and ''

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'' magazines. Thousands of Gallucci's photographs have appeared on print ads, billboards, book covers, annual reports, catalogs, and brochures. His work appeared internationally in ''Photo-Graphis'' for seven consecutive years. From 1979 to 1993, while on assignment with the magazine's cover department, Gallucci's work was published on over 40 ''Newsweek'' covers

Exhibits

Photos from Gallucci's ''Frames Between Fares'' collection were on exhibit in the O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, VA. The show opening was July 25, 2014. Similar to O. Winston Link, Gallucci grew up in Brooklyn, NY and found himself in Southwest Virginia. Photos from Gallucci's Bruce Springsteen collection were on exhibit (May 26, 2016 through June 19, 2016) at the

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as part of the Los Angeles traveling show, documenting the early days of Bruce Springsteen's career. The show opened at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma in April 2014 and will be displayed in museums throughout the country for two years. Other photographers in the show include,

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Barry Scheier

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. The

''"Bruce Springsteen: A Photographic Journey"'' traveling show was on exhibit at the Morven Museum and Garden in Princeton, NJ November 18, 2016 - May 21, 2017 which features photos from Ed Gallucci's Bruce Springsteen collection. Six of Gallucci's photographs have been accepted into the permanent collection of the prestigious

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. Gallucci was one of five photographers whose works were featured at a special exhibition, ''"Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute"'' at the

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, where his work is also exhibited in the museum's permanent collection.

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in Monmouth, NJ hosts a permanent collection featuring 36 of Gallucci's photographs. In 2012, Gallucci and ''

'' magazine editor

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One of Ed Gallucci's Bruce Springsteen Photographs is a part of the permanent display for the “NYU Clive Davis Exhibit” at NYU TISCH

Film

Ed Gallucci's iconic Bruce Springsteen photographs are featured in the movie ''“A Man and his Music”, The Clive Davis Story''. Gallucci's photographs of Chicago blues musician Paul Butterfield are featured in the film ''“Horn From the Heart”, The

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Story'', premiering April 21, 2017 at the

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, CA. One of Ed's photographs of Bruce Springsteen is featured in Springsteen's film ''

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'', opening October 25, 2019.

Awards

Gallucci has won over 100 advertising industry awards for his photography, including five Andys and two Clios.Clio Awards
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Books

* ''Hard Corps'', Michael Grumley, Ed Gallucci (1977) E.P. Dutton,

References

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