Pics off! L’estetica della nuova onda punk. Fotografie e dischi 1976-1982

The Punk and New Wave movement has generated some of the most iconic album covers of all time: Pics Off! explores the hidden world of the photographs behind these covers, revealing magnificent \’lost\’ images and incredible stories. On the 40th anniversary of the birth of punk, with this unpublished collection of the most amazing shots from backstage photography, Matteo Torcinovich tells the secrets of some of the most famous images in the history of music, combining the very rare portraits of artists such as David Bowie, The Ramones, Blondie, Iggy Pop and many others with the direct witnesses of the photographers who have portrayed them. Here all the included artists: The Ramones, Heartbreakers, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Cherry Vanilla, The B-52’s, Lizzy Mercier, Descloux, Teenage Jesus And the Jerks, Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega, Plasmatics, Plastics, Suicide, The Damned, Ian Dury, The Jam, Ultravox!, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Lene Lovich, Generation X, Nina Hagen Band, The Tourists, The Cure ,Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sheena & The Rokkets, Public Image Ltd, The Specials, Joe Jackson, The Pretenders, Echo and the Bunnymen, John Foxx, Bow Wow Wow, Japan, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus.