Joe Strummer, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981, Backstage Portrait 1983 photographed by Allan Tannenbaum in

photographed by Allan Tannenbaum in 1979

Photograph of Richard Lloyd taken in New York City in 1977

Original photograph by Mick Rock

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Smaller formats are open edition archival pigment prints

Joe Strummer, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981, Backstage Portrait 1983 photographed by Allan Tannenbaum inMichael Grecco photographed Joe Strummer in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1981, away from the stage and seated in an informal interior setting. The portrait records Strummer within the working environment surrounding a Clash performance rather than in concert action. It is part of Grecco's broader documentation of musicians onstage and backstage, preserving the contexts in which punk and post punk artists moved between public performance and private