Debbie Harry, New York City, c. 1978 (Color Portrait) Size:20 x 24 in (50.8 x 61 cm) recording the scene without the

recording the scene without the polish of later retrospection

David Johansen was a crucial bridge between the glam excess of the early 1970s and the punk explosion that followed at CBGB and Max's Kansas City

Christopher Parker was photographed on the Bowery in 1977

Sheila Rock's 1980 photograph of Sade Adu should be normalized under the verified subject and year already present in Shopify

Debbie Harry, New York City, c. 1978 (Color Portrait) Size:20 x 24 in (50.8 x 61 cm) recording the scene without theDebbie Harry photographed in New York City, c. 1978, by Bobby Grossman. By 1978 Blondie had broken through internationally, and Debbie Harry's image at once tough and luminous had become one of the most recognizable in popular music. Grossman, photographing her in color, captures the pop art saturation that suited her crossover moment, when the downtown punk scene was reshaping the global mainstream. The result reads less as a candid than as an icon