S OMERVILLE — Toward the end of his life, Charles Daniels, the self-taught photographer known as the Master Blaster, embarked on a project he’d put off for decades: He would finally develop some of the film he’d shot over the past 50 years. He and his supporters started out small — just 100 rolls — but enthusiasm quickly grew after the first batch came back: never-before-seen photos from his days emceeing at the Boston Tea Party , the storied concert hall where Daniels captured unguarded images of rising rock royalty, including Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, and Peter Wolf. The project quickly grew, and by the time Daniels died of pneumonia this past January , it had garnered international headlines and raised more than $75,000 via GoFundMe to digitize more than 90,000 images.
Advertisement “We kept finding more film,” Daniels’s longtime partner, Susan Berstler, said during a recent tour of the exhibition. “We still have another batch.” In the meantime, Berstler has organized “To Be Continued: Photographs by Charles Daniels,” an exhibition of about 50 prints (plus a 1,000-image slideshow) at Somerville’s Nave Gallery .
The show, which was originally scheduled to close in early June, has been extended through the month, with a closing reception on the 26th, because “Charles would have wanted a party.” Daniels is known mainly for his rock photography, and the exhibition is rich with fresh images of Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, Wood, Wolf, and Stewart, among oth.
