Photographer Derek Ridgers never felt like a part of the crowd he made a name photographing. He was in his 20s, but he felt “too old” already.
“I was working in an advertising agency and I’d just gone down to a few gigs and started photographing the bands,” he tells The Telegraph. “Then the people in the crowd started looking more interesting than the bands so I turned to them.” His new book of photography 78-87: London Youth comes out this week, focusing specifically on London nightlife between 1978 and 1987 — “from the height of punk to the birth of Acid House” — and the various dressed up club kids, punks, skins, goths and various picturesque, now-dated people he found so interesting, documented and classified by tribes. (Images: Hunger TV, ArtBook, Sang Bleu)
Arne Svenson, the NYC artist who recently came under fire for taking and exhibiting photographs of his neighbors in their homes, has won his legal battle in the Manhattan Supreme Court. Svensons photos were art, ruled Justice Eileen Rakower, and art is free speech protected under the first amendment. "While it…
Snapshots, portraits, landscapes -- for about 175 years, most photographers have used the camera to depict what we can see. "But another tradition exists," writes gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel: a parallel history in which photographers and other artists have attempted to describe by photographic means that which is not so readily…
