Roberta Bayley's Best Photo: Joey Ramone at the Beach

1d agovia The Guardian Photography
Roberta Bayley's Best Photo: Joey Ramone at the Beach
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Roberta Bayley, the photographer who shot some of the defining images of the New York punk scene at CBGBs in the 1970s, talks through her favourite photograph: Joey Ramone on a beach, grinning, in a rare unguarded moment. Joey hated it. Said it made his legs look thin. Bayley's story runs from photographing photographs of the Beatles with a family Kodak, through dropping out of college and selling her Nikon, to landing in New York via Richard Hell and ending up the house photographer for a scene that changed music.

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