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80s Sound and Vision captures the raw energy, creativity, and flamboyance of an unforgettable era through its fashion and music.

With images by renowned photographer Sheila Rock, this personal journey offers a visual account including many rare images from the photographer’s archive, alongside those originally featured in seminal publications such as The Face, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.

Rock’s compelling first hand narrative shot across a decade primarily in London but also LA, San Francisco, and Tokyo, takes us to a time when the real catwalk happened on the street; when style was the first and last word and when youth made their own identity, culture, music, and entertainment. Here are the burgeoning roots of gender fluidity and an index of impressive talents that bubbled out of the suburbs and art schools to energise an

Table of Contents

Fashion
Radical Plumage
Street Life
Marketplace of Style
Out in Clubland
Visionaries
Pop Powerhouse
Independent Spirits
Electro Magnetic

80s Sound and Vision

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    A Hardback by Sheila Rock, Nilgin Yusuf, Mark Paytress

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      Publisher The Quarto Group
      Published 20 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9780711278776
      978-0711278776
      ISBN-10 0711278776
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      80s Sound and Vision captures the raw energy, creativity, and flamboyance of an unforgettable era through its fashion and music.

      With images by renowned photographer Sheila Rock, this personal journey offers a visual account including many rare images from the photographer’s archive, alongside those originally featured in seminal publications such as The Face, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.

      Rock’s compelling first hand narrative shot across a decade primarily in London but also LA, San Francisco, and Tokyo, takes us to a time when the real catwalk happened on the street; when style was the first and last word and when youth made their own identity, culture, music, and entertainment. Here are the burgeoning roots of gender fluidity and an index of impressive talents that bubbled out of the suburbs and art schools to energise an

      Table of Contents

      Fashion
      Radical Plumage
      Street Life
      Marketplace of Style
      Out in Clubland
      Visionaries
      Pop Powerhouse
      Independent Spirits
      Electro Magnetic

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