#IGGY POP 1970 HOW TO#
He’d figured out how to put different amounts of water into glass receptacles. But I would try to imitate the things he made. His stuff’s being performed in the Lincoln Center. There was a man, a kind of a gay hobo, named Harry Partch, who created his own scales and his own instruments and made his own music. There were a lot of, kind of, loose cannons around, and that’s a great thing, you know? There was another man named Robert Ashley, who made screaming sounds through amplifiers. It wasn’t lascivious, but it was more like, in some way, she influenced me a lot. I was, I think, 17, and I saw a picture of her playing the cello topless, bound. She was a beautiful girl from Alabama who hung with the John Cage, Nam June Paik crowd, very avant-garde music people. There was a female artist named Charlotte Moorman, and she never got her due during her life. Cover of the short-lived Earth magazine.Ann Arbor, Michigan was kind of a way station for working beatniks and avant-gardists between New York and the West Coast. The second print in this series-the first was an amazing portrait of Al Green-which is only being made available for one week only, is a spectacular image of Iggy lying prostrate among the audience at Ungano’s.
#IGGY POP 1970 ARCHIVE#
Most have never been seen.īud Lee’s estate, which oversees and manages his archive, has begun releasing limited edition, hand-numbered archival prints of Lee’s work as a way of raising funds to preserve his extensive archive of images and help realize special projects, including a planned monograph of his work. A few were published in a short-lived underground magazine entitled Earth (as seen here).
#IGGY POP 1970 SERIES#
During the show, backstage, and even at Iggy’s digs in the Chelsea Hotel, Lee took a series of incredible, candid photos of the Stooges frontman at the very height of his ‘Ig’-ness. In August 1970, Lee turned his lens on Iggy Pop while attending one of the Stooges’ legendary shows at Ungano’s in New York, which was recorded by Stooges A&R, Danny Fields, heavily-bootlegged, and reported on extensively by underground rock magazines like Creem. An aspiring filmmaker, Lee also shot a no-budget remake of Gone With The Wind with a cast entirely made up of children from local schools.
#IGGY POP 1970 MOVIE#
He became very active in the local arts scene around Tampa, Ybor City and Plant City, helping to stage a number of outrageous happenings, as the Artists and Writers Ball, an annual themed costumed ball that harnessed the same freaky anything-goes energy had had experienced in the company of the Cockettes and on Fellini’s movie sets. He later moved to Tampa, Florida, where he married art teacher Peggy Howard and started a family.
Lee ‘retired’ from magazine work in the early ‘70s and and moved to Iowa, where he founded the Iowa Photographers’ Workshop, as a companion program to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Lee covered the Newark riots, and the funerals of Robert Kennedy Jr and Martin Luther King Jr for Life, trailed transgender performance troupe the Cockettes from San Francisco to New York for their ill-fated off-Broadway debut, and shot production stills on the set of Fellini’s Satyricon, Alice’s Restaurant, and Fiddler on the Roof. A prolific contributor to Esquire, Life, Rolling Stone, and other magazines in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who regularly ran extensive portfolios of his work, he took iconic photos of figures as varied as Warhol’s Factory and its superstars, Tennessee Williams, Al Green, James Brown, ZZ Top and Norman Rockwell.
This is the shot available as a limited edition print Bud Lee (1940-2016) is a great American photographer whose work has somehow been overlooked.
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