HAIL MURRAY !

Murray Bowles

[Punk - San Francisco]

This collection of photographs documents and celebrates the San Francisco punk music scene from 1982 to 1995. Murray Bowles was the most influential photographer of the Bay Area punk scene. Collected here for the first time are Bowles’ classic images shot in Mabuhay Gardens, On Broadway, 924 Gilman, Tool & Die, Ruthie’s Inn, as well as warehouses, parks, backyards, and basements throughout the Bay Area. Featuring hundreds of images of bands such as Green Day, Operation Ivy, Neurosis, Crimpshrine, Dead Kennedys, MDC, Special Forces, Social Unrest, SpitBoy, Melvins, Gwar, Soundgarden, NOFX and many, many more.

Last Gasp (2024) 272 p. 32 x 24 cm Hardcover