Book review #3: Alternative Voices

Missing Beats? When I came to review a new punk photography exhibition in San Francisco, I wondered where the verse had gone. Then a child of perfect pedigree turned up

Alternative Voices: 1980s Punk San Francisco – Photographs by Jeanne Hansen, Interviews by Jonah Raskin (JMH, 2021)

WHEN I laid my hands on a new and classy catalogue issued to accompany the premiere of a significant photographic exhibition called Alternative Voices: 1980s Punk San Francisco, I immediately wondered how far the earlier artistic explosions…