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Photography exhibit: "Hard Art, DC 1979"

"Hard Art, DC 1979," an exhibit of Lucian Perkins' photographs of a soon-to-erupt hardcore punk scene in the nation's capital on the eve of the Reagan presidency, brings to life an enormously influential artistic and cultural movement inspired by then unknown bands like Bad Brains, the Teen Idles, and the Slickee Boys. Perkins, a two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning photojournalist (1995 and 2000), was a twenty-six-year-old intern at the Washington Post when he shot the images featured in the exhibit--and book of the same name--at four shows in the fall and winter of 1979¿1980: at Hard Art Gallery, Madams Organ Artist's Cooperative, and a Rock Against Racism event at the Valley Green Housing Complex. The negatives languished in storage until 1995, when Perkins hired photographer/photo archivist Lely Constantinople to organize several decades of his work. Read more, and view a slideshow, at the event URL in this listing.

Type: EXHIBIT and ONGOING