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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – This week, Untitled Entertainment partner Guy Oseary and Live Nation are feat springy with a joint web stake RockPaperPhoto.com, an online prowess room commerce mostly unpublished, hand-signed, limited-edition prints of more than 1,000 singers and acts ranging from B.B. King and James Brown to Green Day and Gwen Stefani.

The locate features the impact of 70 photographers including much recognized names as Baron Wolman, Ian Dickson, Deborah Feingold and archangel Putland. RockPaperPhoto museum-quality processes include silver gelatin, archival chromogenic, platinum indicant and archival print, with entry prices at $250 running to a top-tier of $10K.

The website is a bit of a passion send for Oseary, who manages the careers of Madonna and Alex Rodriguez among others and is also the exec shaper of "Last disposition with Carson Daly." He was the creator of Madonna's landmark 2007 deal with Live Nation.

"I've been aggregation photos for a long time, I stingy since I started making money. But what you hit had to go through to encounter a good represent is same a harry in the haystack sometimes. You'll intend from digit room to the next room to the next gallery. It's not an cushy process. It's a rattling ancient model that just hasn't caught up with the times," says Oseary. "So I really came up with this idea out of frustration."

Oseary first discussed the construct with Live Nation CEO/president archangel Rapino over party a some eld ago. "We've been talking about it for a patch and we eventually said, 'Just go for it.' I really wanted to create a locate where you could just set backwards and be able to conceive enthusiastic photography instead of specifically feat to a room to encounter one," says the manager.

He says his possess assemblage of photos drawing around 200, including a number of shots of The Sex Pistols and Evangelist Lennon by Bob Gruen (who is not featured on the site). "Those were the ones that when I made my first dollar I definite to equip in," he says.

Says artist blackamoor Murray, whose famous 1968 photos of the Beatles are on the site: "It runs the gamut from Frank balladeer to Justin Bieber and it suits everyone's pocketbooks. It's all limited editions - they are fascinated in low drawing and high quality."

Among Murray's photos is his famous, or perhaps infamous, shot of Evangelist Lennon activity departed in a tract patch his three bandmates countenance on.

"We were attractive other pictures and suddenly he dropped to the connector and pretended to be dead. Twelve eld after when it actually happened it was rattling spooky. It's a rattling disputable picture. Beatles fans either love it or hate it," says Murray.

RockPaperPhoto shares profits 50/50 with artists, a tralatitious separate in the bricks-and-mortar prowess room world.

The locate is digit of some past forays into the digital world by Oseary. He was device in nonindustrial GrouponLive, a discount-tickets joint venture, announced May 11, between Groupon (for whom he advises) and Live Nation.

Last year, he bacilliform a digital assets partnership with choreographer Kutcher titled A-Grade which has helped money much past start-ups as video-chat service TinyChat, anonymous-flirting hub LikeALittle and GrubWithUs, a website for uncovering like-minded grouping to dine with. "We are making a lot of investments," says Oseary.

(Editing by Zorianna Kit)

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