About the Photograph
Joe Strummer of The Clash photographed by Roberta Bayley in New York in 1980, the year of the band's Sandinista! sessions and their extended stay in the city. The frame catches Strummer in a black cowboy hat and a red-and-black Western shirt, sitting on a bed leafing through a magazine — the unforced proximity Bayley brought to the scene as door manager at CBGB and house photographer at PUNK Magazine, applied to one of punk's defining frontmen at the height of his American moment.
Photograph by Roberta Bayley.
Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) print, 20 × 16 inches, executed in 1980. Number 6 from an edition of 15, initialed, 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.
