Leslie Lyons tells the amazing true stories behind some of her best-known photographs.
For the first time in 20 years, I have time to reflect on some of the pictures I have made: for bands, for magazines, for myself. This quarantine is affecting everyone in both individual and collective ways. I feel lucky this is how it is affecting me. Certain images are bringing back my time as a photographer just starting out, and how the culture of New York then has become part of my DNA.
I had been showing my portfolio to labels and music managers with not much luck. The creative director at Atlantic Records was super kind and would always see me in person and say the same thing: "I love your pictures but they're too raw. That's just not what we do here." He was in essence speaking for the whole industry, which consisted mostly of pop acts or hip-hop.
And that is exactly how I felt when I heard "The Modern Age," the first song on The Strokes' demo. I was sent the demo on a Monday and asked to come that Wednesday night to see the band live and talk about a shoot. But I called the publicist and said,"I'm in and I want to shoot Wednesday, not just come see the band." I wanted the camera to discover and capture the energy, not have it processed over time.
Then I was hired by Gear magazine, a gadgets, cars, and fashion lad publication launched by Spin magazine founder, Bob Guccione, Jr., to not only shoot but interview and profile Arthur Lee, frontman for the seminal '60s band Love. Lee had just been released from prison after serving more than five years on a bogus"weapons discharge" sentence. His former bandmates had died while he was in prison and now he was touring.
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