The “THE ART OF STAX: Essential Album Photographs by Joel Brodsky”

June 8 – August 24, 2007The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is proud to honor the life and work of the late Joel Brodksy by presenting some 40 of his original photographs used for Stax Records albums, along with outtakes photos from the photo shoots. Just a few of the album photographs are Isaac Hayes’ Black Moses; Booker T. & the MGs’ McLemore Avenue, Mavis Staples’ Only For The Lonely, Jean Knight’s Mr. Big Stuff, and David Porter’s Victim Of The Joke? An Opera, in which Porter dons a clown outfit. In the making for nearly two years, “THE ART OF STAX” was announced at a January 22, 2007 press conference in New York City, where Mr. Brodsky was in attendance and reminisced with Stax veterans Isaac Hayes, David Porter, Al Bell and others about his time photographing them for Stax Records. Opening Reception:

• Friday, June 8, 2007

• 7 - 10 p.m.

• Complimentary Hors d’Oeuvres - Cash Bar

• Stax Music with DJ Tommy Pacello

• $10 General Admission - Free for Stax
  Museum Members

For more information, please call 901-946-2535 or visit www.staxmuseum.com.

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