‘Jeff Buckley – A Wished For Song’ Exhibition in Melbourne

It seems Melbourne is getting rocked by a couple of high class exhibitions this summer. After announcing the AC/DC exhibition a few days ago, it's now come to our attention that The Raw Gallery in South Melbourne will be hosting an exhibition of Jeff Buckley taken by his official tour and promotional photographer Merri Cyr.‘Jeff Buckley – A Wished For Song’ features 35 photographs taken by Merri Cyr during her five years working with Jeff Buckley began from 1992 until his untimely death in 1997.Buckley pushed his record company to give Cyr the job of producing an image for his first release – the 'Live at Sin-e' EP in 1993. She went on to shoot the iconic 'Grace' LP cover image in 1994, the photographs used on his posthumous release 'Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk' in 1998 and worked as Jeff’s official tour photographer in 1994.Merri Cyr became interested in photography as a teenager in the early eighties after winning modelling contest and being photographed by world...

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