Disco : the Bill Bernstein photographs /[edited by David Hill and Tony Nourmand].
- Title
- Disco : the Bill Bernstein photographs /[edited by David Hill and Tony Nourmand].
- Published by
- London, U.K. : Reel Art Press, 2015.
- Author
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Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | FormatText | AccessUse in library | Call numberSc+ G 18-59 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | FormatText | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGS+ (U.S.) 19-2663 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations; 31 cm
- Summary
- "Stunning photography by Bill Bernstein. Containing many previously unpublished photographs, Disco takes the viewer on an access-all-areas tour of late-70s New York nightlife. "Who were these people of the night... ? It was the Posers. The Watchers. The Posers watching other Posers watching the Watchers, watching the Dancers, watching themselves." Bernstein's eye was drawn to the characters that lived for the night, rather than the celebrities, the unknown men and women who were transformed by the nightclub haze, and this is one reason his photographs from this time feel so authentic and immersive. As James Hillard writes in his foreword, "These shots capture the very essence of what going out was, is, and should be, all about. They showed the true democracy of the dance floor where anyone could be a star, as long as they had the right attitude and flair ... The pictures in this book are a document of an incredibly exciting and creative time, not only in music, but also in social, political and fashion history too." All the photographs featured were shot by Bernstein from 1978-80. Manhattan was the epicentre of the movement. And Bill Bernstein captured it all."--Publisher's website.
- Uniform title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative title
- Works.
- Subject
- Night people
- Disco dancing
- Discotheques
- Portrait photography
- Catalogs
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- African American gays > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- Night people > New York (State) > New York > Portraits
- Portraits
- Disco dancing > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- Portrait photography > New York (State) > New York
- Bernstein, Bill > Catalogs
- Discotheques > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- Pictorial works
- New York (State) > New York
- Popular culture > New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Pictorial works.
- Portraits.
- Call number
- *MGS+ (U.S.) 19-2663
- Note
- Statement of responsibility taken from colophon.
- Author
- Bernstein, Bill, photographer.
- Title
- Disco : the Bill Bernstein photographs /[edited by David Hill and Tony Nourmand].
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Reel Art Press, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition
- Type of content
- text
- still image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Added author
- Hill, David (Record producer)
- Nourmand, Tony.
- ISBN
- 9781909526228
- 1909526223
- Research call number
- *MGS+ (U.S.) 19-2663
- Sc+ G 18-59