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Debbie Harry: The Making of an Icon

Before social media, before online media, and long before artists could communicate directly with millions of followers, public identity was built through photographs.

Magazine covers, record sleeves, posters, newspapers, publicity portraits, and music magazines shaped how audiences understood musicians. For most people, photography was not simply a record of an artist—it was the artist.

Few figures illustrate this better than Debbie Harry.

Emerging from New York's downtown scene in the mid-1970s, Harry became one of the most recognizable faces of her generation. Yet her transformation from local musician to international icon was not driven solely by music. It was built through a remarkable body of imagery created by photographers who understood that they were documenting something unique.

Chris Stein, Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Ebet Roberts, Mick Rock, Sheila Rock, Bobby Grossman, Godlis, Allan Tannenbaum and others did far more than photograph Debbie Harry. Together, they helped shape one of the defining visual identities of twentieth-century popular culture.

From CBGB and the Bowery to magazine covers, world tours, studio portraits and collaborations with figures such as Andy Warhol, David Bowie and Iggy Pop, these photographs reveal how an image became an icon.

This collection explores not only Debbie Harry's career, but the essential role photography played in creating the Debbie Harry the world came to know.

162 works
Debbie Harry with Suzi Quatro and Joan Jett, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry with Suzi Quatro and Joan Jett, New York City, 1977TMPG·1974
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry on Train, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry on Train, New York City, 1977TMPG·0278
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry with Joan Jett, Portrait I, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry with Joan Jett, Portrait I, New York City, 1977TMPG·8582
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry in Motorcycle Jacket II, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry in Motorcycle Jacket II, New York City, 1977TMPG·7510
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry with Newspaper, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry with Newspaper, New York City, 1977TMPG·3046
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry at Rehearsal, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry at Rehearsal, New York City, 1977TMPG·5814
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry with Joan Jett, Portrait II, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry with Joan Jett, Portrait II, New York City, 1977TMPG·1350
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry on Rooftop II, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry on Rooftop II, New York City, 1977TMPG·9302
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry in Pink Sweater, New York City, date unknown, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry in Pink Sweater, New York City, date unknownTMPG·4838
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry with Plastic Letters, New York City, 1977, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry with Plastic Letters, New York City, 1977TMPG·1446
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Andy Warhol with Debbie Harry, Rooftop II, New York City, 1978, photographed by Chris Stein.
Andy Warhol with Debbie Harry, Rooftop II, New York City, 1978TMPG·8678
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry at Union Square, New York City, date unknown, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry at Union Square, New York City, date unknownTMPG·2070
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Debbie Harry, Portrait, New York City, date unknown, photographed by Chris Stein.
Debbie Harry, Portrait, New York City, date unknownTMPG·4662
Chris Stein From $1,000
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Blondie photographed on a New York City street corner in 1977 by Roberta Bayley during the CBGB era.
Blondie, New York City, 1977TMPG·0390
Roberta Bayley From $1,200
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Debbie Harry on a New York rooftop, 1978, photographed by Martyn Goddard.
Debbie Harry, New York Rooftop, 1978TMPG·6470
Martyn Goddard From $550
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Blondie recording Parallel Lines at Record Plant Studio, New York, 1978. Debbie Harry wearing headphones beside a studio microphone. Photograph by Martyn Goddard.
Debbie Harry, Blondie recording Parallel Lines at the Record Plant Studio, New York in 1978TMPG·1478
Martyn Goddard From $550
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Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie photographed in New York by Charlyn Zlotnik, 1979.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, Blondie, New York, 1979TMPG·5782
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Original contact sheet documenting Blondie during the recording of Parallel Lines at Record Plant Studio, New York, 1978. Photograph by Martyn Goddard.
Blondie Recording Sessions for Parallel Lines, Contact Sheet, Record Plant Studio, New York, 1978TMPG·8278
Martyn Goddard From $550
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