STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Raeanne Rubenstein, 74, a graduate of Curtis High School who photographed celebrities, including Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Jimi Hendrix, died on Saturday in Nashville, according to a New York Times report.
Born Rae Anne Rubenstein on Sept. 15, 1945 on Staten Island, her father, Isidore, owned the Tudor Furniture Company, and her mother, Sylvia (Grossman) Rubenstein, was an elementary school teacher, said the report.
A graduate of Curtis High School, Ms. Rubenstein attended the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, according to the report. After graduating in 1967, Ms. Rubenstein became a journalist in London where she reported about celebrities, according to the NY Times. Later, she moved to the East Village section of Manhattan.
She was well known for her photos of musicians, especially those affiliated with the emerging 1960s New York rock scene. Later in her career she photographed many country music stars, from Johnny Cash to Dolly Parton, the report said.
“Camping out at places like the Fillmore East, the storied rock venue on Second Avenue near East Sixth Street, she grabbed both backstage images and performance shots. Her work first appeared in publications like The East Village Other, an alternative newspaper, but before long it was turning up in Rolling Stone and mainstream magazines, including People and Life,” said the NY Times report.
Author Holly George-Warren, as editor of Rolling Stone Press used Ms. Rubenstein’s photographs in “Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock” (1997) as well as in her own books, the report said.