Neal Preston's Iconic Rock'n'Roll Photography Comes to the USITT Show to Benefit Behind the Scenes

	Neal Preston

Behind the Scenes announces that the work of famed Rock'n'Roll photographer and author Neal Preston is coming to the USITT Conference and Stage Expo, March 21 - 23 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky courtesy of The Lightpower Collection. Preston's iconic pictures will be displayed in the BTS booth #1253 and his books Exhilarated & Exhausted and In the Eye of the Hurricane will be available for sale. Posters, including his famous images of Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant, will also be available for just $10 each. Sales of books, posters, and prints will benefit the Behind the Scenes charity. Behind the Scenes would like to thank The Lightpower Collection, Shepard, TMB, and USITT for making this exhibition possible.

Preston will be present in the Behind the Scenes booth to sign books and posters on Thursday and Friday from 12:00 - 1:00pm and 4:00 - 5:00pm. He'll be available throughout those two days to talk about his work and for press interviews. To schedule an interview, contact info@behindthescenescharity.org or call 212-244-1421.

Neal Preston is one of the most highly respected photographers in the history of the music business and his legendary images include some of the most memorable ever made of rock's most iconic stars. His career in photography, which started in high school and continues to the present, has spanned well over four decades. His photographs have appeared in every conceivable media outlet: on the covers and pages of world-class magazines and newspapers, to books, television shows, feature films, Broadway show programs and billboards, vinyl, CD, and DVD packages ... literally everywhere. Through his body of work Preston has made a significant contribution to the pop culture histories of multiple generations.

Preston's client list is a virtual who's-who of rock royalty and his archive is regarded as one of the music industry's most extensive and significant photo collections. Rock fans know him best as the photographer who has toured with Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, and countless others. In 1985, Preston was chosen as one of the official photographers for Bob Geldof's Live Aid concert at London's Wembley Stadium. In 1988 his association with Bruce Springsteen helped land him the job as official tour photographer for Amnesty International's landmark Conspiracy of Hope tour.

Preston is also a gifted sports photographer, the most-assigned photojournalist in the history of People Magazine, with almost 700 shoot days to his credit, and a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, for which he worked as the unit and special photographer for feature films like Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky.

Lightpower was founded in 1978 in Germany as a lighting rental company. Since then Lightpower has grown to be an internationally established distributor for stage and studio lighting equipment. The Lightpower Collection was born out of a company culture that has grown over several years with a passion for collecting Rock'n'Roll art. The collection features photography and album cover artwork from many of the world's greatest photographers and designers. Neal Preston's Rock'n'Roll photography represents the core of this collection and comprises over seventy large-format original fine art prints.

The Behind the Scenes charity provides entertainment technology professionals who are seriously ill or injured with grants that may be used for basic living and medical expenses. For more information about Behind the Scenes, to donate, or to apply for a grant, visit the URL below.