Back in the Punk Days, When CBGB Was the Place to Be – The New York Times

Back in the Punk Days, When CBGB Was the Place to Be

In his photographs of the 1970s music scene, David Godlis helped capture the grit and urgency of the era.

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When David Godlis was shooting off-kilter, kinetic photos of bands like Television, Talking Heads and Blondie, he had a sense that the scene unfolding in the Bowery club CBGB was important. But no less vital than the sound being made was the punk aesthetic — urgent and gritty — that Mr. Godlis was helping define.