In-Store Event
Donna Santisi presents and signs
Ask the Angels
Date: Thursday August 12, 2010 - 7:00pm
Synopsis:
Kill Your Idols, Inc. presents
Ask the Angels, a redesigned special edition reissue of photographer Donna Santisi's cult classic 1978 book of black and white images, which were among the first to capture the dynamic transitionary period between West Coast New Wave and the emerging punk rock scene.
This reissue, with added photos through 1980, is free of nostalgic bombast, attempted groupie-dom and any claims to the exclusive photographic rights of that era. Donna Santisi instead allows her provocative, evocative photographs to speak for themselves, revealing a surreal time and a place where New Wave champs such as Patti, Cale, and Verlaine frolicked with Masque-era punkeroos the Bags, X, Go-Go's and Alleycats, along with plenty of influential visitors from New York, London, San Francisco, and Cleveland who co-mingle with West Coast art school dropouts like the Weirdos and Screamers... They're all here in this essential nugget of time.
In this beautiful, 124 page 8.5" x 11" perfect bound book, Donna's original black and white photography is elegantly presented without superfluous ornament or visual destraction, and is supplemented by essays by Alice Bag, Kristian Hoffman, Exene Cervenka, Trudie, KK Barrett, and a foreword by the late Brendan Mullen.
Praise:
"Ask the Angels discovers the LA scene as it really happened."
- Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
