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# The real Jimi Hendrix experience on display
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/the-real-jimi-hendrix-experience-on-display/
- Published: 2008-05-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T19:42:46.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Events, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By DAILY PRESS STAFF*

LOS ANGELES “Hendrix Revealed: A Life Through The Lens”will open Thursday, May 29 at the Celebrity Vault gallery in Beverly Hills.

The event represents the largest exhibition of photographs of Jimi Hendrix ever shown in the Los Angeles area. Previously exhibited in London earlier this year, the show was produced and curated in association with U.K.-based Raj Prem Fine Art Photography.

The exhibit is being presented at Celebrity Vault, a Beverly Hills art gallery located on Canon Drive. Co-founded by Klaus Moeller, Cole Sternberg and Sean Goodchild, the partners announced that 10 percent of opening day sales will be donated to the “Experience Music Project” in Seattle, Hendrix’s hometown.

The Seattle music project will also be lending Celebrity Vault some rare Hendrix artifacts to be displayed during the exhibition.

EMP is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to the exploration of creativity and innovation in popular music through interactive exhibitions, educational curricula and other special programs.

Since its Frank Gehry-designed museum opened in Seattle in 2000, it has drawn more than 4 million visitors. EMP’s retrospective Hendrix exhibition, Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound, opened last month and runs through April 2010.

Celebrity Vault’s Moeller said, “We are honored to have EMP’s participation in Hendrix Revealed, and to help support their important work. We hope to have more of this kind of synergy with our gallery going forward.”

Hendrix Revealed presents works by 15 world class photographers including: Ed Caraeff, Eddie Kramer, David Montgomery, Bruce Fleming, David Redfern, Gered Mankowitz, Barry Levine, Robert M. Knight, Jerry Schatzberg, Herb Schmitz, Dezo Hoffman, Barry Peake, David Magnus, Baron Wolman, Dominique Tarle and Rob Bosboom.

Spanning the years 1967 to 1970, the images range from famously iconic shots to rarely seen treasures — edition sizes will vary, and several will be one-of-a-kind, hand-finished “editions of one.”

The show marks the 40th anniversary of Hendrix’s first U.S. tour in 1968, also the year that Electric Ladyland was released. David Montgomery’s infamous image for the U.K. cover of that LP, featuring large group of naked ladies, was banned in the U.S. -- the image is part of Hendrix Revealed, as is Montgomery’s elegantly psy-chedelic inner sleeve portrait of Jimi. The year prior to Electric Ladyland, Hendrix’s era-defining performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival propelled him to instant global fame and remains one of rock’s seminal moments.

Taken at that concert, Ed Caraeff’s unforgettable shot of Hendrix setting fire to his Fender Stratocaster will also be featured.

Participating photographers who will be attending the May 29 opening include Barry Levine, who shot Hendrix at Woodstock, and Eddie Kramer, who was Jimi’s friend and engineer/producer.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 27, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/052708.pdf?ref=smdp.com)