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Joe Sia was a shooting star, a genuine, hands-down, everyone-agrees-on-this star at shooting [photographs], and his departure from this planet in 2003 at the tender age of 57 was too soon for a man of his talent. Born in the Bronx and a committed Yan...more

Joe Sia was a shooting star, a genuine, hands-down, everyone-agrees-on-this star at shooting [photographs], and his departure from this planet in 2003 at the tender age of 57 was too soon for a man of his talent. Born in the Bronx and a committed Yankees man, Joe loved music and gravitated around the Fillmore East and the flower-power youth-culture rock scene from whence he set out to capture some of the most incredible sounds of the last half-century. How could Joe capture sounds on camera film? He did it by focusing on the faces of the performers and the woozing-oozing crowd and by giving the background, whether simple or wild, the importance it deserved in defining the artist and event. From his first assignment at Woodstock and his unbelievable up-close shots of Jimi Hendrix and other stars to his coverage of modern concerts featuring Limp Bizkit, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Korn to mention just a few, his shots put sounds on paper and were snapped up by publishers for book and magazine covers, producers for albums and CDs and the stars themselves as favorite poses. Sia's entire archive consists more than a quarter of a million photographs that document almost 35 years of music genre and giants....less