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 ...

Publisher: Rizzoli

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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 New Wave-band Blondie and his subsequent reign as epicentre of punk's golden age - Chris Stein kept an unrivalled 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. Focusing on a single decade in Stein's own world, 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 Richard Hell and William Burroughs to Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol, and Stephen Sprouse - 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, P.O.V. transports us to another place and time.

Review:

"...[It] is a fascinating document, not only of the punk scene of the early and middle 1970s but more generally of New York City in its years of chaos, decay and creative energy." --Luc Sante, New York Times

"Although most well-known for his iconic images of Debbie Harry, which were documented in his book Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk, Chris Stein' was shooting plenty of other subjects in 1970s New York City. His new book Point of View collects these often overlooked personal frames into a single place." --Popular Photography

"A far cry from the New York that Sinatra extolled, the city as depicted in the photographer and Blondie co-founder Chris Stein's new book of images from the 1970s and 80s, Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene, is certainly rough around the edges." --Art Newspaper

"Who better to document the gritty punk heyday of '70s NYC than one of its most influential luminaries? Blondie founder/guitarist Chris Stein's new collection of vintage photographs feature iconic scenesters from William Burroughs to Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol to Iggy Pop, all set against "New York City streetscapes in all their most longed-for romance and dereliction."
--Insdie Hook