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PDF Punk Pioneers Photos

I ONLY SELL or LICENSE existing high res scanned photos. Pls DOWNLOAD FREE PDF of OVER 250 of my AVAILABLE punk photos. DO NOT ASK for FREE PHOTOS for YR PROJECTS. INCLUDE a BUDGET re licensing inquiries. FREE PDF is edited version of my coffee table, hard-cover, full color, glossy book, Punk Pioneers. Due to copyright restrictions, I’ve removed essay pages. I’ve heavily watermarked each image. NOW you can BUY or license ANY* photo in the book! No time or money for an ecommerce/shopping cart site. Download and re-use my watermarked image! Thanks to over 35 years of ppl stealing my...

Jenny Lens: Ramones numero uno fan

by Richard Schaefer in Lisa Fancher’s “Street Life” fanzine. Proof I was the Ramones “numero uno fan and famous paparazzi in her own right.” Tantalizing sounds of the skirmishes of desire, of lips surrendering cheap kissed in the other room, brought torture to anyone who listened. We stood between the jungle and the stars, both of us trying to keep our balance as we fought. DEE DEE was a madman at my throat an my eyes, trying to gouge them out. At last he got me right in the eyes, his fingers sinking in . . . My brain seemed to burst and I saw “Carbona Not...

Darby Crash, Germs

[77-11-23-3-34-darbymasq] THE classic live Darby shot. Darby Crash, Germs, Masque, November 23, 1977. Seen in my book, Punk Pioneers, OPENING title page of Kids of the Black Hole, MOJO, Guardian Observer cover story, and other major publications. It’s my most published Germs photo. I took the very first official group shot of the Germs. Pleasant Gehman secured an interview for Slash Magazine. She excitedly called me and said they had NO photos and would be over in 15 minutes. MY Germs shots embraced the cover and several pages of the Guardian Observer, a major British publication,...

Jenny Lens interviewed by Alice Bag

Alice Bag interviewed Jenny Lens in 2004. Alice is considered by many to be the very first hard core singer with her radical band, the Bags, who first hit the streets in 1977. Their riotous show at the Troubadour, known for folk singers and laid-back rockers, is still talked about today. I always considered Alice a sweet, thoughtful, beautiful woman and never realized this side of her. She was and is a true style icon, a woman whose inner beauty is matched by her outer beauty, which you will see as I post some of the many shots I took of this amazing woman. I am so blessed to be her...

DREW BARRYMORE HEART JENNY LENS!

Drew Barrymore wrote in booklet I’m holding: “You are beautiful. ♡ LOVE, Drew Barrymore, ♡” Drew’s boyfriend bought my JOAN JETT and LITA FORD Dueling Guitars for her! (see below). OMG, anyone know how to get hold of her? I wanted to share some cool punk stories w/her. I talked to her about her GRANDFATHER et al. I said early punk was very much like early Hollywood. Especially for WOMEN. Yeah, I wanna type up some notes to send her. Just to share. I know she’d LOVE some of my TRUE stories. Way fun. Punk Whip It! Not that I have movie aspirations …. but...

Runaways Joan Jett Lita Ford 1 Slash mag benefit July 8, 1977

Kristen Stewart, as Joan Jett, and Dakota Fanning, as Cherie Currie, starred in Runaways movie! [77-07-08-1-16-larchlitacherie] BUY ME! Lita Ford, Runaways with Cherie the Penguin, Slash magazine benefit, Larchmont Hall, July 8, 1977. [77-07-08-1-18-larchalicelita] BUY ME! Pleasant Gehman, Alice Bag, Rand McNally and Lita Ford, Runaways, Slash magazine benefit, Larchmont Hall women’s bathroom, July 8, 1977. [77-07-08-1-37-larchhall] BUY ME! Germs Darby Crash (white makeup) and Pat Smear, Michael Wilcox, Joan Jet, of the  Runaways (who produced the Germs), Randy Kaye, Slash...

Joan Jett Runaways and Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols 1978

Kristen Stewart, as Joan Jett, and Dakota Fanning, as Cherie Currie, starred in Runaways movie! [78-03-09-01c-johnjoan] BUY ME! Runaways Joan Jett with Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols singer, Whisky, March 9, 1978. My fave of the series, seen in my book, Punk Pioneers. Other images from this series appeared on picture discs, but they were bootlegged. I have no idea how many of my photos from this quick shoot were bootlegged. [78-03-09-02c-johnjoan] BUY ME! Runaways Joan Jett with Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols singer, Whisky, March 9, 1978. [78-03-09-03c-johnjoan] BUY ME! Runaways Joan Jett...

Sex Pistols Final Show, San Francisco, January 14, 1978

Exciting, colorful, in-focus shots of the Sex Pistols, with singer Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, bassist Sid Vicious, and drummer Paul Cook, performed their last show at San Francisco’s Winterland, January 14, 1978. The Nuns opened.   [78-01-14-43c-sexpistols] Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Sid Vicious, Paul Cook, Winterland, January 14, 1978, last show. I’ve sold several prints of this group shot. It’s stunning printed large, on archival Kodak Endura metallic paper. It’s been published in several books.   I don’t have time to detail this...

Nuns Whisky 1977

The Nuns opened for the Sex Pistols at the Winterland, January 14, 1978. The Avengers also opened. I shot then Nuns so much in LA that I didn’t shoot them that night. Here’s shots from their Whisky debut, April 26, 1977. [77-04-26-2-55-nunsmark] Nuns, LA debut, the Whisky, April 26, 1976. This photo is in my book, “Punk Pioneers.”   I saw the guy on the right the next night, when the Nuns played again. I looked up at him, pointed my finger and said, “Your nose ruined my Nuns photos!” We became best of friends and had so much fun at so many punk...