Arturo Vega, New York City, 1977

Made in New York City in 1977, this portrait of Arturo Vega belongs to the visual history of the downtown punk movement and the graphic vocabulary that formed around it. Vega’s work with Ramones helped define one of the most recognizable visual identities in modern music.

Chris Stein photographed the figures of this scene not as distant subjects, but as members of a shared cultural field. His archive is shaped by the closeness of musicians, artists, designers, and clubs that gave downtown New York its particular charge.

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