Marcia Resnick

Marcia Resnick (born 1950) is a photographer, author, and graphic artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950 and lives in New York, New York.[1]

Publications

Resnick's book of photographs and text,Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs:New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982, published November 10, 2015, has an Afterword written by Anthony Haden-Guest, and a contribution by Victor Bockris.[2] An earlier book, published in 1978 by Resnick was Re-visions, which is now out of print.[3]

Photographic subjects

Her photographs of musicians of that milieu appear on their album covers and are copyrighted in most cases by both her and the album producers. Many of her subjects were devotees of CBGB, the Mudd Club, Max's Kansas City, and KCB Bar. Among the subjects of her photographs are John Belushi, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, John Lydon, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg.[4]

Education, teaching, and journalism

Resnick studied at Cooper Union and New York University before going to graduate school at The California Institute of the Arts, where she studied with John Baldessari and Allen Kaprow. Back in New York, she taught at Queens College and NYU and worked for Soho Weekly News and New York Magazine.

References

  1. "Punks, Poets and Provocateurs".
  2. Resnick, Marcia (November 10, 2015). Punks, Poets, and Provocaterurs:New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982 (First ed.). Insight Editions. p. 272.
  3. Resnick, Marcia (1978). Re-visions (First ed.). Toronto: Coach House Press. ISBN 0889100802.
  4. Abedian, Anita (November 17, 2015). "How Marcia Resnick used her camera to tame a generation of New York City 'Bad Boys'". Village Voice. These are the people who appeared and performed regularly at CB's, the Mudd Club, and Max's Kansas City. These are the people who gave readings at KCB Bar and made incendiary, avant-garde works of art. And most of them have this, too, in common: They've all been photographed by Marcia Resnick.
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