The streets of New York tell rock ’n’ roll stories, and to revisit them through analogue photography is to re-live the passion and the madness, the innocence and the degradation, the desire to make it and the creative frenzy of the artists who have left an indelible mark on the cultural life of the city.
Armed with an old Deardorff, 8 x 10 inch, wooden view camera, Ciro Frank Schiappa and Michele Primi became urban anthropologists, digging out the story of where rock was born in the New York City of the 1960s.
The resulting 48 photographs allow viewers to look at rude dwellings and storefronts and wonder what these placed had that allowed Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, or Iggy Pop to find their sound, and the courage to bring their music out into the world.
Michele Primi, photographs by Ciro Frank Schiappa
160 pages, 55 colour illustrations
Retail price: $35 / £ 25 / 32 €
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