So80s: A Photographic Diary of a Decade

Patrick McMullan
So80s: A Photographic Diary of a Decade

Photographs: Patrick McMullan

Publisher: Powerhouse Books

432 pages

Year: 2003

Comments: Hardcover, 30 x 24 cm. Many illustrations in Black & White.

With over 75 contributions from distinguished writers and 80s icons, Patrick McMullan brings us back into the exclusive world of glamour and glitz as it was experienced by the era's greatest fashion, music, and art icons, who mixed uptown elitism with downtown eccentricity in New York City's nightlife. Here is your chance to revisit that fabulous decade of unbridled extravagance.

With a career spanning three decards, Patrick McMullan is one of the world's most celebrated party, fashion, and society photographers. McMullan's relentless documentation of the famous figures who made New York City nightlife the definition of decadence during the age of excess is collected for the first time in So80s. Shot in such legendary nightsopts as Studio 54, Area, Danceteria, Limelight, and the Cat Club, So80s features unreleased photos from the Patrick McMullan archives.