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The Mapplethorpe Effect: Patti, Polaroids and Punk

Simon Warner, Rock's Backpages, 15 January 2010

IT WOULD NOT BE outrageous to propose that the two greatest albums of the punk tsunami featured cover images by arguably the most important post-war US photographer.

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