Not Another Punk Book! by Isabelle Anscombe
Paul Drummond says… Unusually both a UK and a US edition. The strength of the Not Another Punk Book UK edition is clearly the street fashion section edited by Terry Jones, prior to him founding I-D magazine in 1980. The layout of this 17 page section, resembles the early I-D issues, back when it was a street fashion fanzine. Clearly, the fashion victims documented, although photographed individually against the same segment of wall, are supposed to look like culprits at an identity parade. For the US edition, they clearly thought 9 pages for London street fashion was enough and instead the rest of the section is replaced with posed band photos by Marcia Resnick. Terry Jones’ credit is removed from the US edition entirely.
Although much of the remainder of two editions correlate, the two pages dedicated to the US punk scene in the UK edition are removed and replaced by an expanded section in the US edition, resulting in 128 pages in the US edition compared with 96 in the UK. However, it’s obviously a UK publication that was adapted for the US market. The text starts with the 1977 Queen Silver Jubilee and reads like a punk manifesto, with added sound bites as punctuation from the usual suspects, Lydon, Westwood, Damned etc…
The titles are very different. On the US edition it was renamed as Punk – Rock/Stance/Style/People/Stars on the spine and curiously the cover features two well-known London punk faces sales assistants from the shop BOY called Grot and Subie in Queens Jubilee punk attire while the UK cover is non-country specific.
Artist Barbara Kruger’s work looks like it was a major influence on the US design & layout, while the UK edition’s cover was inspired by the 1914 Vorticist publication Blast!
- Not Another Punk Book! / Punk by Isabelle Anscombe, photos edited by Terry Jones (I-D magazine)
- UK Edition Paperback: 96 pages
- Published: 1978 by Aurum Press Ltd, 27 Floral St, London (just around the corner from the Roxy) :
- US Edition Paperback: 128 pages
- Published: 1978 Urizen Books, New York, with additional text by Dike Blair.
Punk77 says: Unlike a lot of punk books it’s a lot more arty in its style and layout. It mixes montage, blown-up images, surrealism, and collage interspersed with quotes, manifestos, commentary and exhortations. It features some shots of bands, but predominantly punks on the street and posing. Also there are the key shops on the King’s Road and key punk venues and places bands played.
All the photographs of the punks featured were taken by Steven Johnston, noted visual artist who worked for Vogue in the 1970s and i-D in the 1980s.
Punk is…
Punk is an attitude.
An attitude of threat. It is a threatening look which says that the status quo is something that can be changed…
Punk is kids knowing what is happening and where… It is kids doing for themselves, no longer content to be given.
The Big O certainly waded full on into punk publishing 3 books at the same time in April 1978 Sniffin’ Glue, PUNK! Not Another Punk Book and 100 Nights At The Roxy
Paul Drummond is the author of the fantastic Eye Mind which is the story of the 13th Floor Elevators and has many items such as the above for sale at his excellent site Pleasure Of Past Times
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