Bruce Springsteen

"What makes a great rock photo is being able to capture the performer as they really are, " says major US photographer Phil Ceccola. "Peering through the lens, you have to find your moment in time and wait for that choice moment to click, like a hunter in a duck blind." Ceccola must have been gifted With highly intuitive reflexes. One of the great US visual chroniclers of rock'n'roll, he started shooting at the age of 11, framing The Temptations in his hometown of Philadelphia in '66. Renowned as a photographer who could capture the kinetic spirit of music, he created enduring images of Presley, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Kiss and Aerosmith and contributed to major music titles from Rolling Stone to Mojo.It was, however, his warm relationship with Bruce Springsteen which allowed the vibrant, personal, iconic photographs collated here to come into existence. Ciccola followed the Boss from the smallest clubs to the most humongous stadiums, choosing the precise nanosecond to immortalise the Ashbury Park dynamo as he grew into one of the most important of American artists. Ceccola's book charts pivotal phases in the blue collar hero's evolution and shines a revealing, access-all-areas light into the man's enigma.Springsteen was born to run; Ceccola was born to frame him in full flight.Ceccola, Phil is the author of 'Bruce Springsteen' with ISBN 9781903399668 and ISBN 1903399661.