Roberta@group exhibition part 2
Photographer Roberta Bayley, who curated Punk Is Coming group exhibition, has sent us some additional photos of the exhibit.
These were taken without the visitors, so you could see well how Roberta's photos are suspended in mid air, creating presentation dynamic.
2 photos from last entry on left, the Heartbrakers in the middle,
The Damned in front of the World Trade Center on the right
2 photos from last entry on right,
Another Heartbreakers photo on left far back
View from entrance, Richard Hell photo on left
Same photo of Hell, by Roberta
Talking about Richard Hell, he just had a live internet broadcast from this same museum last week, as a part of related event of the exhibition.
Hell is the founding member of early punk band like Television and the Heartbreakers; his songs, appearance and the attitude left a huge influence on later punk musicians.
It is said that some of punk fashion now symbolic, like the short spiky hair style and torn clothes held with safety pins, were originated from Hell, and young fans in the UK copied the look of Hell on PUNK Magazine, and that became the world trend.
Godlis had a post about this broadcast on his Instagram page, that Hell was talking about the photo of CBGB that Godlis took back in the day:
On May 26th, there will be another broadcast by Talking Heads' drummer Chris Franz.
Franz is an old acquaintance of Hell, and they are both in "Nick Detroit", a fumetti (photo comic) created by PUNK Magazine with all NY punk musicians as casts.
Hell as the super agent Nick Detroit, photo by Roberta.
Two assassins from Nick Detroit, Franz (left)
and Talking Heads' bassist and Franz's wife, Tina Waymouth, photo by Roberta
Punk started small in downtown NY and quickly spread to become a world wide trend. Back in the day there was no internet nor Youtube, but this exhibit proved that with the aid of these photos that Roberta and Godlis took, and also PUNK Magazine, people around the world were able to see the visual side of punk that was so cool, creative and original.
The exhibition is up until June 5th; more details at the link below:
MOCA Westport Punk Is Coming Exhibition