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In his photographs of the 1970s music scene, David Godlis helped capture the grit and urgency of the era.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/what-it-was-like-in-the-punk-days-when-cbgb-was-the-place-to-be/?&_r=0&module=Slide®ion=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-7&action=Escape&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&slideshowTitle=Back%20in%20the%20Pu
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.