Frank Stefanko, Bruce Springsteen, Italy , Rock photography and New Book!

Frank Stefanko is a fine art photographer whose work graces the album covers of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River, Southside Johnny’s Hearts of Stonealbum cover, and Patti Smith’s The Arista Years1975 / 2000 box set cover. Frank’s photographs also appear in Bruce Springsteen’s Live 75/85, Greatest Hits, Tracks, and the Essential Bruce Springsteen. Mr.Stefanko is the author of the book Days of Hope and Dreams / an Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen which has recently been released in the second edition. He is also the author of Patti Smith / American Artist which features beautiful images of a young emerging artist; Ms. Smith from 1970 to 1980. Frank’s work has toured in two museum shows: Bruce Springsteen, Troubadour of the Highway, which, at the time, broke attendance records at the Frederick Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, The Cranbrook Museum near Detroit, The Experience Music Project in Seattle, and The Newark Museum in New Jersey. In 2012, the Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock Photography show will tour The Columbus Museum, in Georgia, The Hunter Museum of American Art, in Tennessee, The Gibbes Museum of Art, in South Carolina, The Huntsville Museum of Art, in Alabama, and The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, in Mississippi. Mr. Stefanko is represented by The Morrison Hotel Gallery, in Soho, New York; the Govinda Gallery, in Washington, DC; the Fahey / Klein Gallery, in Los Angeles; and Snap Galleries Ltd. In London.Beyond Frank’s Rock photography, he has been assembling a portfolio of landscape photographs that feature places where the footprint of man has not yet touched.