'These days you could go to Schubas & you’d still have to have a letter from the pope to get in with a camera. I walked in & I shot a bunch of pictures. They were terrible, I’ve gotta admit. . .' unlistenmusic in convo w/ Paul Natkin. ChicagoansOfNote
Chicago native Paul Natkin is a prolific concert and portrait photographer who’s shot more than 4,300 musicians and celebrities since he started his career in 1975.
, was a brilliant photographer back in the 40s and 50s after World War II. When I was born, he got out of the photography business, but he got into it again in the 70s. The first job that he got was from a friend of his who worked for this team of basketball players who were just starting out called the Chicago Bulls. You could walk up to the box office for any game all season long and get really good tickets for $2—nobody was going to the games because nobody cared about basketball.
I’m five foot two, standing with a bunch of guys that were like two feet taller than me, right on the court. It was like a dream come true, but not in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I could actually make money in photography. It was just a way to go and see basketball games for free. Left: Paul Natkin’s most famous concert photo, of Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhoads at the Rosemont Horizon on January 24, 1982. Rhoads died less than two months later in a plane crash. Right: Atlas Genius at House of Blues Chicago on March 5, 2013. “It’s the most perfect rock ’n’ roll picture that I ever took in my life,” Natkin says.I figured, I’d been able to BS my way into almost any sporting event in the city of Chicago; let’s see if I could BS my way into a concert.
I started going there two or three times a week. It didn’t matter who was playing—I didn’t care. I would just go in, take pictures, and develop the film. I’d always make the security guy an eight-by-ten print and bring it the next time I went there. I shot people like Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Cheech and Chong. It didn’t matter who it was. Anybody who was onstage, I was there taking pictures.
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