Unpublished Photos Of Jimi Hendrix, From ‘Pawn Stars’
In season five, episode five, entitled “Looney Dunes“ on History Channel’s sometimes riveting show Pawn Stars, Jimi Hendrix’s personal photographer, Ron Raffaelli, brought in a stack of never before seen photos of the iconic guitarist.
I couldn’t find them anywhere on the internet, so I’ve compiled some (poor quality) snapshots from the show plus the few I did manage to find online. They’re from the late 60′s, and show a side of Hendrix that not many got to appreciate, seeing as he passed away only a few years after he hit the scene.
That stodgy bastard Rick Harrison tried to offer Raffaelli $10,000 but eventually the price was pushed up to a deserved $15,000 for several of the vintage photos, many of which were signed. Here they are…
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I think a higher price could have been had here but the owner must have thought it was fair.
You can dream of high prices in the past or dream of creamy skin @ marykay.com. Rick should tell Chumlee to go and buy some for his son.
These are wonderful photos. It’s great to see Hendrix so alive as we celebrate what would have been his birthday. I’ve also found some “never before seen” photos of Jimi Hendrix. These are from his Hollywood Bowl concert in 1968. Show him rehearsing, hanging out and performing.
http://www.kingrosearchives.com/news/5-Jimi-Hendrix-72nd-Birthday.html
if you post a picture you can still sell it later; i post crap on the internet all the time but i could still sell it. i want one of those pictures. imagine if the picture came with the right to use it for stuff.
best pawn stars ever!
I think the Pawn “Stars” should do their homework. Those images have been published hundreds of times. And Raffaelli sold the negatives some 20 years ago.
http://www.gettyimages.com/Account/MediaBin/LightboxDetail.aspx?Id=21635189&MediaBinUserId=4385489
10k to 15k was a fair price. If you bring stuff to auction they take 30% of whatever the final bid is. They are photographs so they are not one of a kind and he didn’t sell the negatives. The old man can just run more and as long as they are from the original negative, they are the same. In fact, when it comes to fine art photography it works in reverse. Say the old man decided to make a limited run of say 10 prints of each photo that were numbered. In the art world, the photograph number 10 is worth more than the first one. The reason is because photographs are all obviously exactly the same when they come from the original negative AND photographs have a real lifespan. They start degrading the minute they are printed and in 100 years they will be cloudy and not long after that they will be blurry. Therefore the industry values the LAST print from a limited original negative run more than the first. If I sold my fine art photography, and again use the 10 numbered prints as an example, and I priced the first at $1,500, when the next client asked for the #2 print, I charge $2,000, and the 3rd, $2,500, etc. It’s standard practice. As you can see by the time you get to #10 you have both the photograph that will last the longest(it takes years to sell out expensive fine art runs) and are selling when the least supply is available, making it the most valuable print.
i saw the show tonight, and couldn’t believe my eyes…. what a dick bag that dude is!!! 15 grand, i wanted to puke. these photos are ammmmazing and should be treasured. he should have brought those photos to a real gallery, fuckin pawn star asshole!!!!! ripper that guy off. GREAT PHOTOS, thanks for posting this. i looked everywhere!
These pictures should be in a museum he was a national treasure.
yes, and dude should have got more money. whats up with rick? he should have paid more; i am dissapointed in him tonight.