PJay Plutzer

From seeing Ray Charles and The Supremes in the 1960s with my Mom to seeing shows at both the Fillmore East and West with my brother, music ran in my family long before I became a “Prisoner of Rock and Roll."

Whether on assignment, as a freelancer, or from my own seat, I began to photograph bands in the ‘70s. I started in and around New York City, then moved to Boston, where I studied photography at the Art Institute of Boston, and then in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I live today.

My photographs have appeared in books about Bruce Springsteen, including ‘For You, The Light in Darkness’ by Lawrence Kirsch and ‘Down Thunder Road’ by Marc Eliot, and as images licensed for T-Shirts for official Bruce Springsteen Merchandise by Live Nation Merchandising/Merch Traffic available. The Live Archives, available from NUGS.net and Bruce Springsteen.net have selected my photos for six cover images in Springsteen's Live Archives series. And several of my photos appear in the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music exhibit “Bruce Springsteen Live!”, which is touring Grammy Museums.

In addition to assignments from record companies and freelance work for WCOZ radio in Boston, my photos appeared in several print publications, including The Boston Herald American, Rock Around the World, Rock Scene, and Circus Magazine. I have been a contributing photographer to Backstreets Magazine since 1995. I also did work for Dee Anthony’s Bandana Enterprises, which managed Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, Ten Years After, J. Geils Band, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

I’m thrilled to announce my association with the online NFT company, No Form. They will be featuring my rock and roll photographs on their website at noform.art.