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Digging through the back rooms of rock photography history often means slogging through self-aware ridiculously posed press-packet-ready photographs. Why is it that the brief flicker that was Post Punk/No Wave in New York has such a disproportionate number of the most amazing photographs? The fashion is timeless because it’s not fashion at all: fashion is self aware and dictated by the tastes of others. I don’t know what you call this. Amazing?
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![Lydia Lunch: Teenage Jesus and The Jerks](https://whitelightwhiteheatdesign.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lydiaboredbest.jpg?w=200&h=300)
Ziggy Stardust Lives. . .hotter than I remember, too.
David Arnoff’s photographs capture the stark heart of the sound that became no wave.
![Anya Philips: There for everything that was anything in New York, and dressed to steal the scene. That's creating something all by itself.](https://whitelightwhiteheatdesign.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ayaphilips.png?w=231&h=300)
![debbieharrybychisstein](https://whitelightwhiteheatdesign.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/debbieharrybychisstein.jpg?w=221&h=300)
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