Rock Photographer Paul Natkin Didn T Just Shoot Superstars He Was One

• Paul Natkin
• Judas Priest, 1983

“Paul Natkin: Superstars,” the new exhibit at the Ed Paschke Art Center, marks the first retrospective of the Chicago native’s four-decade career in music photography. Featuring subjects as diverse as Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Ice Cube, and Guns N’ Roses, each of the 21 photographs tells a story, some of music history, others of Natkin’s career milestones, and many of both.

Another image, this one from 1982, shows Ozzy Osborne holding guitarist Randy Rhoads, then one of the most promising guitarists in the genre, above his head as the guitarist played. Rhoads died in a plane crash about a month later.