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The Strokes, Amy Winehouse, Killers, More Get Star Treatment in Piper Ferguson’s ‘Indie/Seen’ Photo Book
With stellar photos of the Strokes, Killers, Beck, Amy Winehouse and more, Piper Ferguson's 'Indie/Seen' book is a time capsule of the early '00s.
Yet what sets Ferguson’s book apart is her talent and skill as a photographer: Not only is she an ace at capturing onstage moments as they happen — there are several shots of performers swinging from pipes above the stage or some other telling onstage moment — she also knows how to make ordinary-looking bands look interesting without resorting to exotic locations, whether it’s the Shins in bed (in superhero costumes, natch) or Radio 4 standing in front of the Unisphere holding snowballs. But then my publisher, Roger Shaw at Weldon Owen/Insight Editions, thought it might be good to do a book on all indie rock, so we basically had to start a new version. I feel like for whatever reason, Los Angeles isn’t as revered as having a ‘scene,’ at least not since the [‘70s] Masque club or [‘90s] Raji’s, but even still, those places were not popular like CBGB’s or the grunge movement of Seattle.
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