Lydia Lunch Instagram – Lydia Lunch
Photos by: @rickmcginnis 1988 in Toronto
“Lydia Lunch showed up performing the material she’d later release on her Oral Fixation record, a pioneer of the spoken word genre (along with former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins – more about him shortly) that would turn out to have real longevity. My photos of her were meant to accompany an article my friend Tim was writing – a paean to the woman who was a kind of nihilist sex symbol in the underground subcultures that had formed since punk rock. So I tried to approach the shoot as something like glamour photography, not dissimilar to the photos I’d take of actress (and onetime Bond Girl) Jane Seymour for a fashion magazine a couple of weeks later.
Bringing along my little portable studio – a light stand and umbrella bounce, a portable flash and a big white painter’s tarp I carried around in a gym bag – I cleared a space in the storage room at the Silver Dollar and found an unbroken bar stool that I placed midway between my tarp backdrop and my flash.” – Rick McGinnis
#lydialunch #rickmcginnis | Posted on 18/Feb/2024 09:38:42
