Caroline Coon
Paul Simonon, Joe Strummer and Topper Headon, Belfast, 1977
Gelatin Silver Print
30.6 x 24.2 cms
12 1/16 x 9 8/16 ins
12 1/16 x 9 8/16 ins
7623
Provenance
Donated by the Hyman Collection. All profits go to the Centre for British Photography.
Caroline Coon has a unique place in British Culture: a counter-culture activist in the 1960s, a leading protagonist in the early years of British Punk and a photographer and painter....
Caroline Coon has a unique place in British Culture: a counter-culture activist in the 1960s, a leading protagonist in the early years of British Punk and a photographer and painter. Coon's famous photographs of the early Punk bands, including the Sex Pistols and The Clash (whom she briefly managed), reflect her own status as intimate and insider. Coon's Punk photographs are widely celebrated, having been used in a range of media, from the artwork for Punk records to their inclusion in Jon Savage's great study of Punk, England's Dreaming. Photographs of this genre capture a post-war British radicalism that radiated quickly internationally, and which still exists in parts of London and its outskirts today.
Image is signed and print-dated 2001 in pencil on the reverse.
Image is signed and print-dated 2001 in pencil on the reverse.
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