If you happen to walk past Michael Weintrob’s photography studio in East Nashville, Tennessee, you’d notice something unusual happening inside. A ’58 Stratocaster guitar donning a fake mustache and sunglasses has come to life like a rock ‘n’ roll creature emerging from the depths of some hellacious music studio.
The subject of the portrait is actually legendary rocker John Oates, and that guitar, purchased in 1973 on NYC’s Upper West Side for $125, has appeared on every Hall & Oates record to date.
“I think that these instruments are an extension of who these musicians are,” Weintrob told CBS News. “And one might say that they’re hiding behind them, or maybe they’re just showing their true self, because this is what they think about, that’s where their heads are, really.”
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It’s all the inner workings of the music photographer’s opus, “InstrumentHead.” Published in 2017, the portraits contained within that book (of the artist’s heads covered by their instruments), inspired a companion volume, “InstrumentHead Revealed,” published this year, which mirrors the artists’ instrument portraits of the first books with revelations of the artists’ faces.
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Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Weintrob discovered a passion for photography at an early age. That passion would eventually develop into a successful career as a live music photographer.
“Before I moved to Colorado, my father gave me a Nikon 4004 camera, and that was the first time I ever had a real kind of camera in my hands,” he said. “I remember when I was first starting to take pictures with that camera, it was 1996 and I went to a Blues Traveler concert in Sunrise, Florida. And I was taking photographs of the band. And it was a really wonderful feeling. I felt like I was at the concert, but I was doing my own thing at the concert.”
In 2000 he was the house photographer at the Aggie Theater in Fort Collins, Colo. “I would go backstage and I would take pictures of the bands and, you know, you’re a photographer, so you know…
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