Jim Jocoy Documents 1970’s San Francisco Punks in ‘Order of Appearance’
California independent publisher TBW Books release a new photo book by Jim Jocoy. Dropping out of university in 1977, Jim Jocoy would spend the following years documenting the burgeoning San Francisco punk movement and club scene. The photos offer a raw and intimate glimpse at the west coast scene, and its accompanying chaos, energy, and style.
Almost 20 years after the release of his first monograph, We’re Desperate, produced with the help of Sonic Youth front man Thurston Moore and fashion designer Marc Jacobs and widely regarded as the definitive catalogue of early West Coast punk fashion, Jim Jocoy’s archive of previously unseen photographs has been re-examined and re-considered to compose Order of Appearance, a new body of work that humanizes his young subjects as they go through their daily lives sharing the tender moments of love and loss that came to encapsulate the late 70s and early 80s as the Summer of Love slowly eroded and gave way to punks’ disaffected view of the world. .
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