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 and exhibitions

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]

In 2016, the exhibition Marcia Resnick, Conception: Vintage Photographs 1974-1976 was shown at Deborah Bell Photographs gallery and reviewed by L'oeil de la photographie (the Eye of Photography magazine).[4]

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.[5][6]

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. ↑ "Marcia Resnick, Conceptions - The Eye of Photography". 16 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Marcia Resnick, Conceptions - The Eye of Photography". 16 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016. I found that when I went to tourist spots, there would be people looking at places and I'd always see them from behind. That was the whole [Maurice] Merleau-Porty kind of philosophical thing: being in front and being behind--like being inside yoursself. I was also at that time in the iconography of body gestures. How you could read, from the way a person's body was from the back, almost as much, or as much, as you could from looking at a face in a portrait. . . .
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