Public Enemy
Public Enemy, 1988
After graduating college, I worked for a year as a photo editor for a Canadian music magazine called Graffiti. It was just part-time, and it paid terribly, but it was a great way to put off the scary proposition of being a full-time photographer.
I was pretty good about not taking all of the best assignments, but occasionally I would pull rank and give myself something special. We had played the first Public Enemy album often in the Graffiti office, so when the second one came out, there was a ready audience for this masterpiece. It got repeated play at the office, and on my Walkman, so I couldn’t have been more excited when they went on tour that summer.
I shot this picture in a narrow hallway in the backstage area of the venue, with my Metz flash shooting through an umbrella on a modest stand. An early and simple attempt at “lighting.” Amazingly, it worked.
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About Chris Buck
Chris Buck is a photographer and director known for his distinctive style: irreverent, smart, and intimate.
His portraits have won placement in American Photography over 50 times, and he was the first recipient of the Arnold Newman Portrait Prize. His editorial clients include The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.
He has released three monographs of his work, Presence: The Invisible Portrait, Kehrer Verlag 2012; Uneasy: Portraits 1986-2016, Norman Stuart Publishing 2017; and Gentlemen’s Club: Partners of Exotic Dancers, Norman Stuart Publishing, 2021.
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