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?
“Statement Necklace”
Ziggy Stardust Lives. . .hotter than I remember, too.
David Arnoff’s photographs capture the stark heart of the sound that became no wave.
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