Preposterous Filter: Who took that picture I saw in the "Mars Bar" back in 89/90/91?

December 4, 2008 1:29 AM

Preposterous Filter: Who took that picture I saw in the "Mars Bar" back in 89/90/91?

So, in the late 80's/early 90's I used to periodically find myself in "Mars Bar" (In the East Village, in N.Y.C.). Alright, maybe more than periodically. More to the point sometimes, in all the chaos, there were photos on the wall.

This is my question - There was a series of black and white photos up for a time that were insane and great: In the most memorable one (for me) a woman is standing in the middle of a nightclub's empty dance-floor. People are sitting around the periphery, not really paying attention. She has no shirt on, and is standing in a sort-of karate stance. The kicker is that she appears to be shooting up, a.k.a injecting something into her arm with a hypodermic needle. As best I can remember the photographer had a some-what plain Chinese name.

There was another of the someone's leather-jacket-wearing back that was also surprisingly great.

It's been bugging me for years, no one I knew back then knows who took them, though a couple remember the pictures.

Thanks, hive mind!

posted by From Bklyn to society & culture (2 answers total)

Toyo did a few shows there around that time.

Hey a bunch of us used to hang out there a great deal back then, although we'd usually just pass through while on our way to or from CBs or some other club ... we'd drop in, have a few warm up drinks, burn some tags on the wall then move on ... maybe we drank together?
posted by Mutant at 5:27 AM on December 4, 2008

Wow.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Looking at what of his work I can find, which has not included the two images I remember most, I'm pretty sure this was him. This is even close.

I had forgotten about those Rivington School guys. This question has turned into much more of a Proustian experience than I had bargained for.

and yeah, there is a chance we tipped a glass together. The chance ever comes up, next round's on me.
posted by From Bklyn at 1:01 PM on December 4, 2008