About the Photograph
Debbie Harry in a green blazer, the no-wave saxophonist James Chance in red blazer and bow-tie at centre, and Chris Stein with guitar at right, photographed by Roberta Bayley in 1980 against a wall layered with overlapping posters and tear sheets. The frame condenses the breadth of downtown New York — the punk-pop crossover and its furthest avant-garde edge — into a single image, at the moment Blondie were one of the most-watched acts on the planet.
Photograph by Roberta Bayley.
Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) print, 11 × 14 inches, executed in 1980. Number 2 from an edition of 25, signed, titled, numbered and dated by the artist on the reverse. Long discontinued, the Cibachrome process leaves every surviving example among the last of its kind.
From the personal archive of Roberta Bayley. Price on request.
