The Punk Rock Museum announces it will host a book-signing and meet-and-greet with internationally renowned music photographer Michael Grecco, author of “Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978-1991” (Abrams Books, 2020). The event will take place Sunday, Aug. 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. Fred Schneider, a founding member of The B-52s, who authored the book’s forward, will co-host the event, and both he and Grecco will be on hand to autograph copies of the best-selling book, which is available for purchase in the museum’s gift shop.
Guests who purchase a book in the museum’s retail store will receive free entry to the entire museum and its exhibits (paid museum guests may also attend the signing).
About the Book:
From the late ‘70s through the early ‘90s, Grecco documented the nightclub and concert scenes in New York and Boston as punk music roared into the United States. He was working as an Associated Press photographer, photojournalist for the Boston Herald and lensman for legendary rock station WBCN-FM; he was also a self-described “club kid” who had a unique opportunity to embed himself into this revolutionary scene as both a chronicler and a participant. Grecco’s negatives from that heady time had been dormant in his file cabinets until his archivist suggested revisiting this previously unseen body of work. Their efforts lead to Grecco’s best-selling book Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978–1991 (Abrams Books, 2020), which introduced these images to the public for the very first time. In addition to the 162 photographs, the book features a foreword by Fred Schneider of the B-52s, an essay by veteran rock journalist Jim Sullivan, and Grecco’s pithy personal anecdotes from his times hanging out with the musicians he was shooting. The book then spawned the multimedia-exhibition “DAYS OF PUNK,” which premiered at Photo London in 2021 and is currently touring the world.
