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Stranded in the Jungle: Jerry Nolan’s Wild Ride

Posted on April 4, 2018

L.A.M.F. cover sessions. Left to right: Billy Rath, Walter Lure, Jerry Nolan, Johnny Thunders, August 1977© Roberta Bayley

Hailing from Brooklyn, back when it was still a gang town, Jerry Nolan (1946-1992) was an indisputable force in shaping the look and sound of the city’s biggest glam and punk rock bands. As the drummer for The New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers, Nolan set the pace, crafting the face of hard rock during the 1970s – a distinctive combination that was at once raw, rough and rugged, yet highly dandified and charismatic.

“Jerry saw Elvis when he was really young, back in 1956. It reminded him of the gangs he saw in New York,” says Curt Weiss, author of Stranded in the Jungle: Jerry Nolan’s Wild Ride – a Tale of Drugs, Fashion, The New York Dolls, and Punk Rock (BackBeat Books), which released its Kindle edition yesterday. “For Jerry, gangs and rock and roll were interchangeable. It was a secondary family. He never had a dad; his mother kept divorcing, remarrying, and moving around. The only constant men in his life came through gangs or music.”

Nolan, who had learned to sew and cut hair, created what he described as a “profile,” which allowed him to stand above the crowd. “People thought he was in a band even when he wasn’t,” Weiss notes. But soon enough, he was. He joined The New York Dolls in 1972 after drummer Billy Murcia died of asphyxiation following efforts to revive him after a drug overdose while on tour in England.

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Dolls “reunion” at Gem Spa, left to right, Johnny Thunders, Sylvain Sylvain, Jerry Nolan, Arthur Kane, David Johansen, August 1977© Roberta Bayley

Categories: 1970s, AnOther Man, Books, Music

Ed Templeton: Hairdos of Defiance

Posted on March 23, 2018

Californian photographer Ed Templeton gives us a preview of his upcoming exhibition featuring 20 years worth of photos of the Mohawk

Hailing from southern California, Ed Templeton got into the punk and skateboard scene in 1985. At that time, the aesthetics of rebellion were becoming codified as politics and style become strongly intertwined. Perhaps the most visible symbol of rebellion was Mohawk, a hairstyle that took its name and style from an Iroquois tribe residing in Quebec and New York.

Composed of a series of carefully crafted spikes of hair running down the center of a shaved head, often dyed bright colors like orange, blue, and green, the Mohawk brazenly respectability politics and polite society. By radically altering their appearances to signify displeasure, disgust, and rejection of the status quo, punks firmly drew a line in the sand, one that squares found intolerable and rude.

Templeton, however, understood that Mohawks were a message about authenticity in a fake world. In celebration, Roberts Projects in Culver City, CA, presents Hairdos of Defiance, an exhibition of 42 photos made in the U.S. and Europe over the past 20 years accompanied by a book from Deadbeat Club. Like his 1999 book and exhibition Teenage Smokers (Alleged Press), Templeton looks at the ways that kids revel in acts of disobedience to establish their independence and refusal to conform. Here, Templeton speaks about how the Mohawk has become a symbol of opposition, integrity, and self-determination for more than forty years.

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Categories: 1980s, 1990s, AnOther Man, Books, Exhibitions, Photography

Jack Pierson: Tomorrow’s Man

Posted on March 13, 2018

Courtesy of Tomorrow’s Man

Back in the 80s and 90s, long after the sun went down, peddlers would set up an impromptu flea market with old possessions displayed on blankets set down on the sidewalks of Second Avenue in New York’s East Village. It was here, amid Puma tracksuits and fake Chanel jewels, that American artist Jack Pierson discovered Tomorrow’s Man – a men’s magazine from the 50s and 60s dedicated to bodybuilding.

A self-described “short-attention-span collector,” Pierson was instantly intrigued and headed over to Physique Memorabilia – a purveyor of vintage male erotica that required patrons to buzz the door for entrance and have a specific reason for their visit. No casual browsers were allowed.

“Between those two places I made a little collection of my own,” Pierson recalls. “They had resurfaced on my desk around the time that Robert Bywater asked me to do a book for him. His intention was for me to do a little book of my new photographs but at that moment I was feeling this kind of ephemera and magazine work I had been doing myself. I was also more interested in other artists than I was in myself.”

Inspired, Pierson proposed an idea: a brand new version of Tomorrow’s Man that combined clips from vintage physique magazines with work from contemporary artists with cutting edge design. Images were cropped, collaged, and juxtaposed in an innovative way that suggested the unexpected and evocative associations one makes when perusing a thrift shop.

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Categories: 1960s, AnOther Man, Art

Christopher Makos: Warhol at Montauk

Posted on February 28, 2018

Andy Warhol with Pat Cleveland. Photography Christopher Makos

Back in 1971, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey purchased Eothen, a 12-hectare oceanfront estate on the Long Island shore for $225,000. A true East End landmark, Eothen was built in 1931 by American architect Stanford White as a fishing camp for the Church family of Montana, who used it for two weeks in September when the striped bass were running.

Comprised of four individual cottages, a three-bedroom main house, a stable, a three-car garage, and nearly a kilometer of uninterrupted coastline, Eothen boasts a fabled pedigree that continues to the present day. In 2017, Mickey Drexler, the CEO of J. Crew, sold the property to Adam Lindemann, a private investor and influential collector of contemporary art and design.

Eothen is one of the crown jewels of Montauk, a town that has evolved into a destination locale. But back in the 1970s and 80s, during the Warhol era, it was a still tiny fishing town populated by local craftsman, property maintenance people, and a smattering of wealthy people like writer Tennessee Williams and talk-show host Dick Cavett, who sought out sanctuary from the madness of New York City.

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Andy Warhol photographing Halston. Photography by Christopher Makos

Categories: 1970s, 1980s, AnOther Man, Art, Photography

Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo

Posted on December 12, 2017

Photo: Still Kicking, a Polaroid of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat taken shortly before his death from a heroin overdose in 1988.Taken from Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo

Weed. Acid. Coke. Opium. Erotica. The Occult. There are many paths to achieve an altered state where mind and body blast off, leaving behind the mind-numbing banality of everday life. Fascinated by the possibilities of achieving transcendence on earth, Julio Santo Domingo (1957-2009) amassed the greatest private collection of sex, drugs, rock, and magic in the world – featuring some 100,000 books and objects by luminaries from Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, and the Marquis de Sade to Charles Baudelaire, The Rolling Stones, and Aleister Crowley to name just a few.

Writer Peter Watts teamed up with designer Yolanda Cuomo to create Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo (Anthology Editions), the definitive book drawn from the collection, which now resides at Harvard University. Here, alongside a preview of images from the book, which has just been released, Watts tells us about Santo Domingo’s passion for enchantments of all sorts.

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Office wall in Geneva illustrating both Julio Santo Domingo’s eclectic, unorthodox hanging style and the wide range of material in the library. Note the stone phallus in the center of the pictureTaken from Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo

Categories: 1980s, 1990s, AnOther Man, Art, Books, Painting, Photography