Marcia Resnick is a New York City photographer and educator. She is an alumnus of the Cooper Union and California Institute of the Arts. Her images have been shown internationally in galleries and appear in many major museum collections. Her work has been published in numerous counterculture periodicals, from THE PARIS REVIEW to ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, self-published artist’s books and an autobiography in photographs, RE-VISIONS. Her confrontational images explore aggression, fame and sexuality while echoing the primordial audacity of punk music and punk style.
Marcia is having a new gallery show starting January 13th: BAD BOYS are the punks, poets and provocateurs who Marcia Resnick photographed in NYC in the 1970's and 1980's. Exploring aggression, fame, sexuality and the ironic gamut of interpretations for the word "bad" from "evil" to "naughty" to "cool" to "good", BAD BOYS extends the meaning of the word "boys" beyond that of male child. These portraits of "enfants terribles" include Divine, Johnny Thunders, John Belushi, Klaus Nomi, Quentin Crisp, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others whose clout add to the mythology of their "badness." It will be on view from January 13 to February 26, 2011 at the Deborah Bell Photo Gallery.