Joan Jett, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981, Performing With Guitar

Michael Grecco photographed Joan Jett performing in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1981, standing with guitar before a microphone. The image records Jett during the period shortly after the Runaways and at the beginning of her defining work as a solo artist and bandleader. Within Grecco's archive, the photograph documents the role of live performance in shaping the visual record of punk, rock, and independent music at the start of the 1980s.