These performances happened as this nation struggled to end its war in Vietnam.
It was a period of raw cultural agony, the physical lives of our generation were under threat while our leaders were telling us falsehoods through the television. The stakes were high, so live performance and poetic language struck blood-deep chords. The collection ends in the early 80’s with the ascendence of a new medium called the music-video, when the primary bridge between performer and audience came to be mediated by a screen. I lost interest in photographing the subject when there was no longer any danger that my clothes would be soiled with the sweat of a live performer.
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