Kalifornia Kool Photographs 1976-1982 Ruby Ray

Being at the special moment of history is quintessentially close to impossible to capture. Ruby Ray was at the spot of things back at the break of two decades 1970's and 1980's. And what a work she did.
She grabbed the bulls by its horns showing the counter cultural groups at the moment of their formation and soon to be swallowed by Deus Ex Machina of big mainstream consciousness, business, fashion industry and music industry.

He shows the people involved in what at the time didn't really have  a label but what we today classify by new wave, punk, post-punk, industrial and post-industrial culture and anything that revolved around. The photos she snapped are the living proof how the DIY movement and self-proclaimed cultural contest looked like. Self-educated and defined by the very authenticity that is so difficult to find these days. The mythos of it that still haunts many artists today, a breakthrough of something so explosive that spawned many other paths and re-defined previously existing aspects of counterculture as beat generation movement.
It's loud and bizzarely sexy.
A set of live gigs, aftershows, backstage shenenigans, portraits of artists that are captured in the moment. Throbbing Gristle, Sex Pistols, Boyd Rice, Devo, The Mutants, The Clash, Bruce Conner, William S. Burroughs, Slits, Factrix, Chrome, Z'EV, Cabaret Voltaire, Dead Kennedys and many others

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