Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene

Chris Stein

ISBN 10: 0847862186 / ISBN 13: 9780847862184

Published by Rizzoli, 2018

About this Item

First Printing signed by Chris Stein on the half-title page with black marker on white background. 211 pages with numerous great black and white photographs taken by Chris Stein, co-founder of the band Blondie and long-time participant in the New York City punk music and arts scene. The book is just-like-new. The dust jacket just has a few compression wrinkles at the top of the spine. (Note: Photos may show magnified dust, a flash reflection, or color washout.) Paypal always welcome. We pack all our books with care and ship in cardboard boxes. Additional photos emailed upon request. International shipping will be $77 for Priority Mail.

Seller Inventory # 12-10-19-2

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene
• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847862186
• ISBN 13: 9780847862184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIGNED FIRST EDITION
  • MUSIC
  • PHOTOGRAPHY

About this title

Synopsis

A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of new wave, Blondie's Chris Stein.

A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of music, Blondie's Chris Stein.

For the duration of the 1970s - from his days as a student at the School of Visual Arts through the foundation of the era-defining band Blondie and his subsequent reign as epicenter of punk's golden age - Chris Stein kept an unrivaled photographic record of the downtown New York City scene.
Following in the footsteps of the successful book Negative, this spectacular new book presents a more personal and more visceral collection of Stein's photographs of the era. The images presented here take readers from self-portraits in his run-down East-Village apartment to candid photographs of pop-cultural icons of the time and evocative shots of New York City streetscapes in all their most longed-for romance and dereliction. An eclectic cast of cultural characters - from William Burroughs to Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol to Iggy Pop - appear here exactly as they were in the day, juxtaposed with children playing hopscotch on torn-down blocks, riding the graffiti-ridden subway, or cruising the burgeoning clubs of the Bowery.
At once a chronicle of one music icon's life among his punk and New-Wave heroes and peers, and a love letter to the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for those scenes, Point of View transports us to another place and time.

About the Author

Chris Stein is the co-founder, songwriter, and guitarist of the iconic punk band Blondie. His photographic work has been featured in galleries and press around the world, and published in the successful book Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk, published by Rizzoli. Beyond his era-defining music with Blondie, he has collaborated with a host of artists over the years, from Shepard Fairey to Glenn O'Brien and Andy Warhol.