Johnny Rotten & Keith Levene, New York City, 1982, Backstage Portrait

Photographed in New York City in 1982, this portrait brings Johnny Rotten and Keith Levene into a close informal frame. Michael Grecco's image records two central figures connected to the British punk and post-punk period outside a concert setting. The work extends the collection's emphasis on performance by documenting the social and backstage contexts that surrounded musicians as punk moved into new post-punk forms in the early 1980s.