CRUSH - Photos from Post-Punk Auckland
Author(s): Jonathan Ganley
Take a photographic trip through post-punk Auckland. Stand in the crush of the crowd and experience era-defining bands and gigs, including: The Clean, The Clash, Snapper, Sonic Youth, Straitjacket Fits, The Fall, Fetus Productions, New Order, The Verlaines, and Headless Chickens.
CRUSH - Photos from Post-Punk Auckland looks back at the hard-edged music of the years 1982 to 1990 through the eyes of photographer Jonathan Ganley. With 136 images of 33 groundbreaking local and international bands and musicians, the book showcases era-defining artists such as The Clash, The Fall, The Clean, Fetus Productions, Chris Knox, Straitjacket Fits, and Sonic Youth. Alongside his evocative analogue images that vividly capture the scene and the times, the book also contains Jonathan Ganley's eye-witness accounts of the first Auckland gigs by some of the best international post-punk bands, and describes some of his experiences photographing local musicians, on-stage and off. CRUSH - Photos from Post-Punk Auckland celebrates a decade of innovative music that still reverberates with music fans around the world.
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'CRUSH is a vibrant visual history of the Auckland underground that pulls you right in, revealing how important photographers like Jonathan Ganley were in documenting a fantastic scene.' - Matthew Goody, author of Needles & Plastic - Flying Nun Records 1981-1988
Jonathan Ganley's photographs have appeared in a number of books including Matthew Goody's Needles and Plastic - Flying Nun Records 1981-1988, Ian Chapman's The Dunedin Sound - Some Disenchanted Evening, and Shayne Carter's Dead People I Have Known. His work has also been published in the music magazines Rip It Up and Volume, as well as online at The Guardian, and at the New Zealand music history website Audio Culture. His photoblog Point That Thing features a selection of his past and recent music images. CRUSH - Photos from Post-Punk Auckland is his first book.
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- : Jonathan Ganley
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- : 01 July 2023
- : books
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