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Sonic Youth fans. For show at Colette gallery, Paris.
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A selection of photos I took in the past couple of years at Sonic Youth shows. For the most part of these gigs the band on stage was in the shade. Moving images being projected in the background and spot lights from behind. The audience in the front was often lit up and I started to take photos of these faces that could appear joyful, ecstatic, raptured.
from the Colette show Release:
http://www.colette.fr/#/a/581/now/5/galerie/13/bientot/
Music Loves You” April 6-30, 2010
Colette Gallery – 213 rue Saint-Honoré 75001 Paris www.colette.fr
Concerts Crowd Photography by Beck, Drew Carolan Josh Cheuse, Lenny Kravitz, Nick Zinner, Philip Andelman, Poppy De Villeneuve, Stefano Giovannini.
Music Loves You began from a desire to talk about music, artists, fans, and in a larger sense, all that surrounds concerts. The desire to show all those moments where an artist and his public become one. Here is an exhibition that deals with all these things, through snapshots taken by photographers, but also by the artists themselves. A tribute to all that contribute to make a concert so special and unforgettable.”
Sonic Youth album release party
May 22, 2009
131 Chrystie st, New York , NY
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Sonic Youth’s The Eternal release party.
Art gallery at 131 Chrystie street in the lower east side. The chatter is louder than the music. Free indian beer and pizza slices from Two Boots.
Bands cover Sonic Youth songs at the bar downstairs but the nice evening after the long winter and cool wet spring makes me want to hang out in the street.
Photographers Richard Kern and Michael Lavine are there too.
I think I haven’t hanging out outside in the Lower East Side for a long time. It feels like it was a few years ago. This stuff now happens more in Brooklyn, apparently.
Sonic Youth. No Fun Festival. May 17 2009
Brooklyn NY
May 17, 2009
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Sonic Youth at The No Fun Festival organized by Carlos Giffoni at the Williamsburg Music Hall.
Bill Nace joined the band as Lee was away.
Could not catch many bands as I had some very busy days with various assignments.
It was a night I would rather be home taking a hot bath than at some busy venue in Williamsburg.
Some guy downstairs was demontrating his synth and others were selling records. The Sonic Youth set was a wild jam of feedback and improvisation.
Stage was dark. Used 2 flashes with one a bit on the side on top a stage monitor. I could then see in the photos Thurston cut his hand somehow and his fingers were bleeding. Blood in the music.
Haitian drum on Nostrand ave. Brother High rehearsal
East Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY
April 25, 2009
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Busy weekend shooting events in Prospect park. back on the bike for a long ride. On Nostrand ave @ Clarendon I run into Toto. his friend goes and brings a drum imported from Haiti. It is made of cow skin. They talk about the cracks. People stop by to look at it.
Brother high practice in a basement a few blocks away. Young mothers bring their kids in the rehearsal room.
