Inside the Moment, with Joseph A. Rosen and Steve Berkowitz

Join us for a conversation with Joseph A. Rosen to celebrate his new book, an illustrated look at one of music history's most memorable and vibrant eras. He will be in conversation with Steve Berkowitz, followed by a signing.

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A unique photographic look at America's greatest musical art forms—blues, jazz, R&B, soul, rock & roll, Cajun, and zydeco—and the musical greats who keep the music alive today.

Fans of blues, soul, jazz, rock & roll, and R&B are passionate and devoted. Inside the Moment is for readers who love American music based on these African American traditions as well as appreciate fine-art photography.

This book brings to light photojournalist Joe Rosen's 45-plus-year body of photographic work, which has largely been unseen until now.

Presented are the author's new and powerful images of both famous and lesser-known artists, which will further the reader's insight and enjoyment. The author adds his own historical context and personal accounts while photographing the artists, enhancing the impact of the images.

Longtime music fans will see fresh images of favorites—such as John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Dexter Gordon, Chet Baker, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and Buckwheat Zydeco—and perhaps discover new artists to listen to and enjoy.

Newcomers will see strong, moving images and also read the author's memorable first-person encounters, leading them to music genres and artists that may be new to them.

Joseph A. Rosen is a freelance photographer based in New York City. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and more. His commecial clients range from Fortune 500 companies to entrepenurial small businesses, providing portraiture, both formal and envoronmental, event coverage and more for annual reports, websites and media useage.

In addition to his regular corporate and commercial work, his music clients are among the greatest names in Blues, Jazz, R&B, Soul, Rock, Cajun and Zydeco, as well as record companies, management groups and music publications.

Joe began seriously photographing Jazz and Blues in the mid-1970’s when Stanley Turrentine and Chet Baker came to Pittsburgh where he lived. He then made a pilgrimage to see Muddy Waters and has been photographing Blues, Jazz and more continuously ever since.

Joe has exhibited at the Carnegie Musuem in Pittsburgh, PA, the Discovery Museum in Fairfield, CT and the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, MS as well as many galleries and educational intitutuions.

Joe received the prestigious “Keeping the Blues Alive in Photography and Art Award” in 2002. The award is presented by the Blues Foundation to an artist who has created a body of work that has brought the Blues to the public and “made a significant contribution to the Blues world.”

In 2006, Joe began a happy and fruitful relationship with the Legendary R&B Cruise, where he leads the photography team and teaches a workshop. In 2008, Joe was selected as the embedded photojournalist to document the Bluzapalooza Tour of Iraq and Kuwait. The tour, produced in conjunction with Armed Forces Entertainment and supported by the Blues Foundation and Blues labels and management groups, brought top flight Blues artists to entertain the troops. Also in 2008, Joe became affiliated with the Morrison Hotel Gallery, the premier venue for Fine Art Music Photography where his work is shown with the greats of music photography, both contemporary and historical.

In 2015, Joe published the book Blues Hands with Schiffer Publishing. It is collection of photographs in which the hands of musicians are the common thread. It is not simply a collection of close ups of hands but includes gesture, moment, mood and emotion. In 2025, Joe published Inside the Moment, also with Schiffer, a collection of almost 50 years of black-and-white music photography with history, anecdotes and information by Joe and noted authors. Both books have been warmly received with great reviews in the music, photographic and general press.

Steve Berkowitz is a five-time Grammy and Double Blues Award winning producer.

He has archived, supervised or produced for re-issue music by Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis Costello, Muddy Waters, Glenn Gould, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Charles Mingus, Raymond Scott, Luther Vandross, Earth Wind & Fire, Janis Ian, Aerosmith, Martin Scorcese's History of the Blues, Ken Burns Jazz, Sly & The Family Stone, the Staple Singers, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Cockburn, Janis Ian, Little Steven Van Zandt, the Beatles and over 3000 releases -- in analog, digital and audiophile formats.

Steve has worked as an A & R and marketing executive and music producer with Jeff Buckley, Derek Trucks, Tony Bennett, Leonard Cohen, Chris Cornell, Roseanne Cash, Fishbone, Branford Marsalis, Henry Threadgill, John Legend, Johnny Mathis, Pink Floyd, Robert Glasper, the Claudettes, Taj Mahal and many other artists. He has supervised music for films and soundtracks for Cirque Du Soleil’s Viva Elvis, George Wolfe’s Harlem Song, Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead, Gonzo/Hunter S. Thompson, Academy Award Winning Capote and many other film and video productions.

Prior to his 25 year tenure at Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings/Sony Music, Steve was an artist manager, musician, agent, radio DJ, tour manager, concert promoter, truck driver and NCAA basketball referee.

Steve lives in New York City and for the last 16 years is the President of The Music Tells You, LLC, a music production, archiving, A & R, management and consulting company.

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