Buffalo: The Life and Style of Ray Petri

Morgan, Jamie; Lorenz, Mitzi

ISBN 10: 157687091X / ISBN 13: 9781576870914

Published by powerHouse Books, 2000

About this Item

Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. 184pp with b/w and colour photographs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Buffalo: The Life and Style of Ray Petri
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157687091X
• ISBN 13: 9781576870914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Buffalo quietly defined the look of 80s youth culture, especially in the UK, and this legacy of an uncompromisingly urban style has since inspired legions of designers, stylists, and photographers who were part of the gang, but who absorbed and understood the images and references and made them their own in cities the world over. From the simple combo of the ubiquitous MA-1 flight jacket and an old pair of Levi's (Ray's own uniform), to the rarified clothing produced by cutting-edge designers, Petri's legacy of style—and the Buffalo stance—is still alive and making its presence felt on the biggest catwalk of them all: the street.

Many people have defined the 80s as the decade in which style triumphed over substance, but Petri's work under the Buffalo "label" was, in many ways, the antithesis of what was dubbed the "matte-black designer decade." Like the magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena, which showcased Petri's work, Buffalo was far more logically a product of the DIY post-punk aesthetic than it was an embodiment of the self-consciously slick 80s image-making. Buffalo was, first and foremost, about a certain kind of hip, urban attitude—one not for sale in stores, but yours to create.

Synopsis

Petri's stylish photographs, produced under the label "Buffalo," were showcased by magazines such as The Face, j-D, and Arena during the 1980s. Here they are presented in an oversize volume (10x13<">), along with essays by close friends and Buffalo members Mitzi Lorenz, Jamie Morgan, and Barry Kamen, who recall Petri's life and work (he died of AID