SELF piX

This is a collection of various personal "Happy Snaps" of me over the years.

I have spent my life taking photographs of others and am rarely in front of the camera.
My photographic education taught that a photographer is a catalyst for the picture. It is the image and subject that is featured, not the photographer.
So If you think I am being narcissistic and self indulgent displaying these photographs, you are right!

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Alan at 17 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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photograph by Harry Myers © 1968/Rex Features

having just taken this photograph
of The Beatles during the Yellow Submarine promotion

playing my Olympic drum kit, circa 1968. Hatch End, England

self portrait @ Dezo's studio office; 20 Gerrard Street, london, W1 1974

This 1973 Press Pass was a fake. I made it myself!
It got me in to many gigs and I got the pictures published weekly. The London music press came to rely upon my relentless pursuit of the picture.

photograph by Dezo Hoffmann at Simon Dee Show
London Weekend TV studios, Wembley England- circa 1974

Self Portrait, Nashville, 2003

WE ARE ON A MISSION FROM OUR ROCK 'N' ROLL GOD

Me with Little Richard. Municipal Auditorium, Nashville mid 80s
photograph by Diana Haig

photographing Johnny Cash and Billy Graham at The Billy Graham Crusade.

I n a New York hotel room posing with my Nashville newspaper feature.
photograph by Hugh Waddell, NYC 1988
BTW - I was in New York to photograph Johnny Cash

photograph by Marshall Chapman _ Nashville mid 80s

photographing at Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic. Austin Texas
photograph by © Kimberly Marks

Promotional photograph for Messer-Merised exhibition
Broadway Studio 1993

Striking a cowboy pose for the Country and Eastern album project.
Broadway Studio, Nashville 1988

my British passport picture 1988-98
photograph by Robert Ogilvie 1988

a moody broody photograph of me setting up lighting at my Broadway Studio 1991

I used to always carry a Nikon AF, but I didn't dress this way too often!
Photographed at my Broadway Studio 1992

promotional photograph for Messer-Merised exhibition

Broadway Studio 1993

Attending the opening of "Alan Messer - Nashville Portraits" exhibition
at Nashville Convention Center, mid 80's

playing congas at John Carter Cash 21st birthday party. Belle Cove Club, Hendersonville, March 3 1991

playing rubboard with The Cactus Brothers_ Nashville

Edmonton Canada, June 1999 © photograph by Ed Genis

self portrait aboard an American Airlines flight arriving in Chicago
from a trip home to England 2001

Notecannons.com photo session, Whistler, Canada
photograph by Michael Messer © 2000

SX70 Polaroid - Joe Walsh session - Memphis
©1991 photograph by Chad Cromwell (drummer)

Wigged Out on Bourbon Street “in search of gumbo"
photograph by Joe Warwick 2002

self portrait _ Nashville 2002

self portrait _ New York City August, 2002

Self Portrait, Berlin , January 26, 2006

JOHNNY CASH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

Slide show presentation, Fender Center, Corona California - Feb 23rd 2008
Photograph by Mike Horan (www.maninblack.net)

Alan and Rosanne Cash at the Bob Harris radio show taping
photograph by Bob Harris, O.B.E. Nashville, Sept 16th 2009

Alan and Bill Johnson arriving at Grammys, Los Angeles - 1988.
We won a Grammy in the Album Packaging category for The O'Kanes, "Tired Of The Running" (photography and silkcreen by Alan Messer/ art direction/design by Bill Johnson)

( taken with my camera - photographer unknown)

Rock Ain't Pretty Buddy! Lower Broadway, Nashville,