Publisher/Powerhouse Books

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"We're Desperate: The Punk Rock Photography of Jim Jocoy" is a collection of works by American photographer Jim Jocoy (1952-). Based in San Francisco in the late 1970s, Jocoy immersed himself in the punk scene, documenting young people at clubs and parties with striking color photographs. This book compiles photographs taken in San Francisco and Los Angeles between 1978 and 1980. As the punk movement, symbolized by the Sex Pistols and Ramones, spread to the American West Coast, Jocoy focused his camera not only on stage stars, but also on unknown young people creating their own styles in outlandish costumes and makeup. The raw expressions and unrestrained poses illuminated by the flash are filled with a rebellious spirit defying established values and an impulse for free self-expression. The book includes contributions from Thurston Moore, Exeene Cervenka, and Marc Jacobs. This is an important collection of works that conveys the energy of an era where music, fashion, and photography intersected, and vividly records the punk aesthetic that later influenced street culture.