Punk Turns 30

All the links for Punk Turns 30 and Theresa Kereakes

2025-11-25T00:00:00.010-06:00

Click on "read more" for live links - NEWEST PHOTO BOOK is Stiv: Disconnected Photo Diary

Substack - Punk Turns 30 Again / Blue Sky / My forthcoming memoir /

For all the Punk Turns 30 posts, HIT THE ARCHIVE TAB on the navigation at the top of the main page - those 3 stacked lines by the title PUNK TURNS 30

/ We go back to 2005! /

Thanks for visiting

FLASH SALE

2025-11-24T19:28:00.089-06:00

FLASH SALE - SHIPS FREE TO THE USA!

FIRE SALE

You may have heard there was a fire at my apartment complex. There was! My apartment, pets, and my archive is safe BUT the power and water was off and we've been displaced until the Fire Marshal inspects the restoration work and lets those of us with habitable apartments return.

I have been inconvenienced but all I have lost is sleep and billable hours.

SO - to make up for lost revenue - Here's a literal FIRE SALE

AND A NEW PHOTO BOOK! Stiv: Disconnected Photo Diary

Click on the picture to see it LARGE and CLEAR

This 1980 image of Stiv Bators performing at the Whisky A GoGo was in a storage unit I had in Tribeca. It survived Hurricane Sandy and as an image, it represents the survival and the Phoenix. I think it is as cool as it's scar left by water that embedded itself between the slide and its plastic page protector.

This is an 11x14 print on metallic finished paper.

$65 - free US shipping

If you're outside the USA, please email me about shipping

To purchase, click ---> here

Click the picture to see it LARGE and CLEAR your print will NOT have a watermark on it

This is a 1979 photo of Mick Ronson. He was playing in Ian Hunter's band.

This is an 8x10 print on metallic finished paper.

$35 - free USA shipping

If you're outside the USA, please email me about shipping

To purchase ----> Click this

Pleasantly Lost in the Supermarket - still available!

Open Edition - direct from printer, $19.99 (+tax and shipping that I can't control) --> Click this to buy

Signed by me, free shipping, total $23 --> Click this to buy (allow 2 weeks turnaround)

Click the image to see it LARGE and CLEAR

Many more at all our shops!

Fine Art Prints are here

If you want to help us get our Retrospect50 tour on the road, you can donate ANY AMOUNT HERE

The Germs Photobook is BACK

Click -> $25 includes shipping (US only - if you are outside US please click here to order.)

Adventures of an Unchaperoned Teenaged Girl

2024-04-30T15:54:00.001-05:00

I've been inspired by so many punk-era photo books. Mine's in the pipeline.

If I were writing for a magazine, this is how I'd preview it:

The attraction of this project is that it is a photographic memoir. In addition to its potential of being an elegant coffee table picture book, Adventures of an Unchaperoned Teenaged Girl charts the explosive living history of the birth and growth of the original Los Angeles punk scene. Along with the photographer-author’s iconic images in their full glory and as featured on album covers and editorial pages, Adventures will also share images from the time, ranging from tour posters, backstage passes, zines, news clippings, and ads to complete the presentation of an era in rapid transformation. Adventures’ visual wonderland punctuates punk’s as well as the author’s many milestones.

Punk Turns 30 Has a Substack Too

2023-12-26T10:06:00.002-06:00

Punk Turns 30 Has a Substack Too

That's right. I started it a while ago and then realized there are things you can do via the app and things you can't. I promise that this website and the Substack will not be 100% duplicates of each other.

At the moment, I am taking this quiet time between the holidays of Christmas and New Years to find and organize all the rest of the slides and negatives I did not get around to scanning during my 2022 Christmas break. And then I had a medical episode that both derailed (my momentum) and focused me. There were a couple months where all I could do was lie down. I watched a lot of Food Network, and wrote down a lot of projects.

The next art project will be completing the HOW TO WRITE SONGS tiles - yes, inspired by Elvis C. and his HOW TO PLAY GUITAR AND Y

More on that later, but for now, I leave you with this - I did several iterations because Elvis also contains multitudes.

Because No One Reads Websites Anymore

2022-05-26T16:30:00.004-05:00

you can find our pictures and stories on Instagram

AND, since I mentioned Instagram - the inimitable and great Gary Leonard posted a photo he took of the Whisky A GoGo marquee for a show that happened 40 years ago today, which I booked, and that boosted a lot of people in the scene. I have written about that gig here and here on here

Enjoy Some of The Devil's Music with Pleasant Gehman... and me

2021-03-24T19:38:00.001-05:00

Pleasant and I chatted on her podcast, The Devil's Music

hosted by Pantheon Podcasts, listen to us wherever you listen to your pods!

I listened on Spotify at this link

Welcome to any new readers who are seeing this because of our chat. Let me know if there are any broken links or missing pictures and I'll fix it right up.

Viv Albertine's Memoirs to Become Television Series!

2020-09-01T09:13:00.000-05:00

Click here to read The Guardian article with all the details!


Viv, Ari-Up and Tessa on the Sunset Strip, November 1980

Sex Pistols' drummer Paul Cook and Viv backstage at the Whisky A GoGo, November 1980