How can I buy a work by Jacob Blickenstaff?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Jacob Blickenstaff. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Jacob Blickenstaff in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Jacob Blickenstaff make?

Photographs of musicians, made over more than two decades for album covers and for The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones, including a long series on Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Show of Hands, on the hands and gestures of musicians.

Where is Jacob Blickenstaff based?

Jacob Blickenstaff lives and works in New York, New York. He lives in Brooklyn Heights and keeps a studio in Vinegar Hill.

Has Jacob Blickenstaff had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Show of Hands (6 March to 11 April 2026) is one of his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Jacob Blickenstaff

Jacob Blickenstaff (born 1979) is a New York-based photographer who has focused on musicians for more than two decades. He grew up in University City and Olivette, graduated from Horton Watkins High School in Ladue in 1997, and traces his early interest in music and images to Vintage Vinyl and the Saint Louis Art Museum, where he saw a Roy DeCarava retrospective in his senior year.

He moved to New York in 1997 to pursue music and began photographing musicians around 2000 while a student at New York University, graduating from its Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 2001. His images have since appeared on more than 50 album projects, including covers for Natalie Merchant, Makaya McCraven, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, The Cactus Blossoms, Joe Jackson and John Pizzarelli.

In the 2010s he photographed culture assignments for The New York Times, and his photo essays have been published there and by NPR, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones. His first solo exhibition, Still Life in Soul, about 40 photographs of soul musicians including Bettye LaVette, Candi Staton and Eddie Floyd, was shown at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis in 2009–10.

Blickenstaff photographed Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings from 2009 to 2016 and is working on a book of those photographs. In 2024 he launched That Million Dollar Bash, a Substack of photo-driven features on musicians. Show of Hands (2026), his first exhibition with Bruno David Gallery, focuses on the hands and gestures of musicians. He lives in Brooklyn Heights and keeps a studio in Vinegar Hill.

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