Ethan Allen Russell (born November 26, 1945, in Mount Kisco, New York) is an American photographer, author and video director, mostly of musicians.
The Sunday Times described the results of that meeting: "Russell ... hit it off with the singer, and from 1968 to '72 was the Rolling Stones' main photographer.
One of his early sessions featured Brian Jones at his home, Cotchford Farm in East Sussex, previously owned by A.
Russell's pictures of Jones, draped around a statue of Christopher Robin and provocatively waving a gun, encapsulate the troubled nature of the doomed guitarist, who was found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool six months later.
He photographed the Stones' free concert in Hyde Park that served as Jones' memorial after he was found drowned in his swimming pool.
Russell was hired as the photographer for The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969, and was part of the band's small entourage.
Critic Todd Leopold of CNN Entertainment wrote: "Ethan Russell first met the Beatles in early 1969.
Other photographers participating that day were Monty Fresco of the Daily Mail and Beatles' assistant Mal Evans.
His roster of subjects also includes; Audioslave, Elkie Brooks, Rosanne Cash, Eric Clapton, Cream, the Eagles, Phil Everly, Jimi Hendrix, John Hiatt, Rickie Lee Jones, Janis Joplin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Morrison, The Moody Blues, Linda Ronstadt, Spooky Tooth, and Traffic.
lang, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Yoko Ono, Leon Redbone, Paul Simon, Randy Travis, and Hank Williams, Jr..[10] In reviewing Rosanne Cash's video What We Really Want in 1991, the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Photographer-director Russell has concocted a weird, two-dimensional world of paintings for Cash to step into, singing one of her latest songs of woe and miscommunication.