THE ESSENTIAL ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON PUNK: FROM THE STOOGES TO TELEVISION TO THE CLASH TO BLACK FLAG
PUNK 365
By Holly George-Warren
Foreword by Richard Hell
"I don't want to see punk as another slavish attitude and image and everything is pre-planned and pre-thought out for you to slip in comfortably."
– Joe Strummer
Featuring text by renowned music writer Holly George-Warren, a foreword by the forefather of punk, Richard Hell, and both iconic and rarely seen images by photographers including Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, and Jill Furmanovsky, PUNK 365 (Abrams; November, $29.95) captures the energy, innovation, fashion, and social upheaval that was and is punk. Featuring vintage Sex Pistols (who announced a 30th anniversary reunion show yesterday) on its cover, PUNK 365 serves as the first and essential illustrated book to follow the path of punk from the pre-cursor pioneers such as the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, through the progenitors of punk, the early and iconic punk bands that emerged from various scenes, and onwards to the proliferation of punk in the 1980s and beyond.
Thirty-plus years ago a dark rumble of noise gurgled up from the Lower East Side of New York City, made its way across the Atlantic to Great Britain, zigzagged back over the pond to the West Coast, and exploded. Its name—punk. In PUNK 365, the most provocative photography documenting the performances, the looks, and the attitude has been gathered together, revealing reverberations that continue to shake up the status quo.
An expert text is paired with photographs curated by Warren that capture some of punk's most famous (and infamous) personalities and places including: doyenne of CBGB Debbie Harry; pre-punk pioneers, the Stooges, the New York Dolls, the MC5; New York's harbingers of change, Patti Smith, Richard Hell & the Voidoids; London's anarchists, the Clash, the Slits. The West Coast's anti-Beach Boys, X, the Germs … and many more breakers of musical barriers and reinventors of contemporary culture. With more than 300 different artists and photographers, PUNK 365 includes garage punk to hardcore and everything in between.
PUNK 365 is part of Abrams' 365 series which includes the titles Andy Warhol 365 Takes and The Beatles: 365 Days. The series has sold 1.5 million copies.
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