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AMM FEATURED ARTIST

Marcia

Resnick

Marcia Resnick first exhibited her art at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum when she was five years old. She is an alumnus of NYU,
the Cooper Union and California Institute of the Arts. In 1975, she self-published artist’s books See, Landscape and Tahitian Eve. Her
autobiographical book of staged photographs about female adolescence, Re-visions, first published in 1978, will be republished in
2019 by Editions Patrick Frey. According to Luc Sante, “Marcia Resnick was and remains the scene’s memory, living the life even
as she chronicled it.” Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: New York City Bad Boys 1977-1982, published by Insight Editions in 2015, features
her portraits of iconic men. Her photographs can be found in numerous books and periodicals, are exhibited internationally and
are in major private and museum collections including MoMA, the Met and the National Portrait Gallery, amongst others.

Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: NYC Bad Boys 1977-1982

I taught photography by day and went out every night to CBGB’s, Max’s or the Mudd Club to hear music by bands which were
mostly comprised of men. I was confounded by the male species and was photographing “Bad Boys,” exploring the dynamic of
a woman photographing men. There was a palpable electricity in the cultural milieu of NYC at that time. Rock musicians and
artists alike were graduating from art schools. Painters were making films. Writers were doing performance art. Sculptors were
creating installations. Artists were acting in films, making music and generally collaborating with each other. My “Bad Boys” pho-
tographs were to become my photo book “Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: NYC Bad Boys 1977-1982. - Marcia Resnick

Mick Jagger

On New Year’s Eve in 1979, I had a raging case of the flu. Liz Derringer, an interviewer and the wife of musician Rick Derringer,
phoned me. She asked if I would like to meet Mick Jagger so that he could decide if he wanted me to photograph him for her
cover story in High Times. I grabbed my camera and a small portfolio of my work and ventured out. Mick had just shaved off the
full beard that he’d grown in Paris, and his complexion appeared uncharacteristically ruddy. He felt self-conscious and didn’t want
to be photographed. My flu sapped my energy and caused me to seem atypically calm and relaxed. Mick thought I was really
“cool” (though my fever made me very hot) and chose me to photograph him two weeks later for Liz Derringer’s article. Several
days after our initial meeting, I read on the New York Post’s Page Six that Jerry Hall and Mick Jagger were vacationing in the
Caribbean, recuperating from what was probably my flu. - Marcia Resnick