Blitz Culture
Jon Savage, Face, The, April 1981
IN A CORNER OPPOSITE the entrance, Richard Young, the photographer, has set up his stall. It has a simple backdrop of white cloth this is, after all, a quick turnaround, high turnover operation in which various "typical", i.e. extraordinary, celebrants are encouraged, flies to the web, to pose in their coats of many colours.
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