Punks, poets & provocateurs : New York City bad boys, 1977-1982 / photographs by Marcia Resnick ; written by Victor Bockris ; afterword by Anthony Haden-Guest.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-271).

Preface / by Marcia Resnick -- The beats go on -- Punk rockers and music rebels -- A bad boy named John : Johnny Thunders -- Provocateurs and raconteurs -- Another bad boy named John : John Belushi -- Bad girl : ordeal in Egypt -- Afterword / by Anthony Haden-Guest.

The people from the extraordinary New York milieu amongst whom I was living and working had no way of knowing that the years between 1977 and 1982 were enchanted, endangered, and unrepeatable, explains photographer Marcia Resnick. It was a time and place populated by icons, iconoclasts, and antiheroes whom Resnick documented with a unique and evocative eye. Here, her photographs of the enfants terribles reflect this unique time in the worlds of jazz, rock and roll, literature, art, and film -- an era that remains highly influential. Rockers Johnny Thunders, Joey Ramone, James Brown, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Brian Eno, and Mick Jagger; beat poets William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso; and provocateurs and raconteurs John Waters, Steve Rubell, Gary Indiana, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the incomparable John Belushi are included here, along with text by Victor Bockris and contemporary writings that create a context for Resnick's photography from this inimitable era.