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Teenage Riot
Susie J. Horgan's "Punk Love" documents DC hardcore scene
To take a look at Black Flag frontman/writer/actor Henry Rollins' steely-eyed, square-jawed mug these days, it's difficult to picture the intense singer/spoken word artist as a fresh-faced, teenage goof — but not for photographer Susie J. Horgan.
While studying photography at Georgetown in Washington DC in the early ‘80s, Horgan took a job scooping ice cream at the local Häagen-Daz. It was there that she met Rollins, also an employee, and began her immersion into DC's burgeoning hardcore scene. Forming creative alliances with Rollins and fellow pivotal punk/ice-cream scooper Ian MacKaye (later of Minor Threat and Fugazi) at the dawn of their careers, Horgan's photographs of the period capture the cresting wave of a movement that would eventually transform the landscape of American music.
Her recent book, Punk Love, collects these images (which include some humorous and genuinely touching shots from the ice cream shop), along with text from Rollins and MacKaye. "There was such an intimate closeness I felt to music and to the scene; it was as if I was born to be a part of it," writes Rollins in Punk Love. "I see now that I was nothing but lucky. Right place, right time. Same thing for Susie. She was as new to photography as we were to music."
While studying photography at Georgetown in Washington DC in the early ‘80s, Horgan took a job scooping ice cream at the local Häagen-Daz. It was there that she met Rollins, also an employee, and began her immersion into DC's burgeoning hardcore scene. Forming creative alliances with Rollins and fellow pivotal punk/ice-cream scooper Ian MacKaye (later of Minor Threat and Fugazi) at the dawn of their careers, Horgan's photographs of the period capture the cresting wave of a movement that would eventually transform the landscape of American music.
Her recent book, Punk Love, collects these images (which include some humorous and genuinely touching shots from the ice cream shop), along with text from Rollins and MacKaye. "There was such an intimate closeness I felt to music and to the scene; it was as if I was born to be a part of it," writes Rollins in Punk Love. "I see now that I was nothing but lucky. Right place, right time. Same thing for Susie. She was as new to photography as we were to music."
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