Carol Jerrems (1949–1980) was born and grew up in suburban Melbourne and studied art and design under Paul Cox at the Prahran Technical School between 1967 and 1970. Initially working in a photo-documentary style, by the middle of the decade she was known for her intimate portraits.
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Janette Beckman is a British-born photographer who now lives and works in New York. She began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for music magazines The Face and Melody Maker. She shot bands from The Clash to Boy George as well as three Police album covers.
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During the heyday of the punk era, young photographer Rikki Ercoli took his Nikon everywhere, documenting the wildly energetic scene.
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David Simon Martret and Blanca Galindo (1984) are a documentary photography duo working together as Leafhopper and currently living between Barcelona and Kuala Lumpur. Their last work It’s a wonderful Life is a visual essay about general addictions.
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Christopher Makos was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, grew up in California, and moved to New York after high school. His seminal 1977 book, White Trash, chronicled the punk scene as it came of age on the street of New York.
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Japanese photographer Kazuyoshi Usui began his Showa project series in the early 2000s, in the midst of Japan’s Heisei era. Usui’s series imagines a world in which Japan’s Showa era did not end in 1989 but continued until today.
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Jim Jocoy was born 1952 in South Korea to a Korean mother and a U.S. Army soldier. In 1969 the family settled in Sunnyvale, California, and in 1976, at the start of the San Francisco punk scene, Jocoy became a student at UC Santa Cruz.
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Mao Ishikawa was born in 1953 in Ôgimi Village, in the northern part of Okinawa. She started her photography career in a workshop guided by the famous Japanese photographer Tômatsu Shômei, in Tokyo in 1973.
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Keeping the gathering as a frame, the photographers Borja Larrondo and Diego Sánchez (The Kids Are Right) document life on the beach, retro-style surfing, camping, biker culture and music in a fusion that transports the reader to a paradise of freedom and wild lifestyle.
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Bill Owens (born September 25, 1938) is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976 is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book Suburbia in 1973.
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Kim Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist, and actress. She rose to prominence as a bassist, guitarist, and vocalist in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (1981-2011).
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Justine Kurland was born in 1969 in Warsaw, New York. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1996, and her MFA from Yale University in 1998. She is known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them.
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