Glen E. Friedman, Skate + Punk Photo-History (uncensored)

BOING BOING VIDEO ARCHIVES: http://www.boingboing.net/boing-boing-video/

Last week, we aired two Boing Boing Video episodes shot during a visit to Shepard Fairey's gallery in LA as the work of legendary punk / hiphop / skate culture photographer Glen E. Friedman was going up on the gallery walls, for his first ever career retrospective "Idealist Propaganda."

The first episode focused on Fairey's famous Obama poster, the second episode on a collaboration between Shepard and Glen involving the hardcore group Bad Brains.

TODAY: we bring you part 3 of this conversation. This episode's all about Glen's early work documenting skateboarder culture, and the beginnings of American hardcore. Below, an image from the very first roll of color 35mm film Friedman ever shot, which he discusses in this video. Also in today's episode: Glen shares the story behind the Circle Jerks "Golden Shower of Hits" album cover, which he also shot. His work was so much a part of these subcultures, which were in turn so much a part of my own formative years -- so this episode means a lot to me. I hope you dig it.

We have one more planned in this series, focusing more on his Hip-Hop work, so stay tuned.

A very special thanks to the great Ian MacKaye, and to Fugazi, and the Dischord records family for generously allowing us to Fugazi's music in this series. Mr. MacKaye was the subject of some of Glen's early photos of the D.C. hardcore scene, and in this episode we dive into some of those images of MacKaye's seminal hardcore band Minor Threat. I was there, too, and Minor Threat changed my life. Glen captured the spirit of this time like no one else.

(read the full, original Boing Boing video blog post here, with links and additional images and supplemental footage:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/28/bb-video-glen-e-frie.html )

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[evildeadTim]

that blonde chick withe short hair is a fuckin hipster wannabe and she sux. glen is an icon. from the beasties to minor threat to run dmc. this guy has been around god bless him. id like to pee on that blonde dumbass.

[drsus0]

thats you guys idea of a Hipster? hilarious, you have no clue what a hipster even is apparently...don't get me wrong, i cant stand them, but that chick couldn't be farther from a hipster if she was trying

[GrompereKichelcher]

sorry typing mistakes

[GrompereKichelcher]

guys let's care about skate and music history and an awesome, photographer rather than about chicks all the time =P

sorry no hate buttons on youtube neither. so-> HATE SO MUCH

that photographer is to good for this world =D e must be from outta space or so =P

ok i love these phtoes so much i would die for them. (as for skateboarding to =D)

Thank you very much M.Friedman for the exhibition in antwerpen (belgium) some years ago.

[kozakson]

glen is really a big inspiration!

[meeces13]

@evildeadTim still a goof?

[evildeadTim]

@meeces13 haha, 2 years and 6 hours later.... nice.

[meeces13]

@evildeadTim fuck you fatty - take your sexual frustrations back to the bathroom sink

[meeces13]

@calebengler youre typical - like most nerds who cant get laid and hate women

[DesignedByFailure]

designed by failure is always looking to sponsor bands