Making big prints from classic music photos

Magazines and the like will have subrscription access to photo libraries innit, though nowadays you often see stuff that is clearly ripped off the web at shocking quality...if you know someone who screenprints i'd halftone them and blow them up that way, cheaper and can look ok ...top one's halftoned already...a1 photographic prints are very expensive even if you can get a negative scan...

this place has a lot of music stock photo: http://www.urbanimage.tv/

lots of reggae and even some grime. not sure about the tubby one you're after though.

That King Tubby photo is ace. If I ever build amps, they're definitely going to be lovingly polished to a high shine...

The lamely named free software Rasterbator takes a pic and blows it up as however many rasterised sheets of A4 you request... Raster as in like old newspaper printing - re-assembling things out of a bunch of dots.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

It's undoubtedly not going to catch the loveliness of those pics quite right, but it's a free way to make really big things that do look quite great from a distance, as you can see in the image gallery.

or if you manage to find good quality originals and want to do photo prints

then look at getting them done online - bonusprint.com or something like that will be at least 1/3 the price of high street printing.

i doubt you will ever get the photos looking very crisp though unless you somehow get hold of the originals.

do you know who took the photos? if they are famous/semi famous, chances are that their work will be in a photo archive like getty images or something. you could then go to the archive to license the image. or in the incredible digital age, it may even be possible to get into contact with the photographer, you never know.