William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie Alex Chilton was photographed on

Alex Chilton was photographed on the Bowery in 1977

but the social and artistic environment from which a new visual language emerged

It is part of Grecco's broader documentation of musicians onstage and backstage

Michael Grecco records the band as a social composition: seated and standing figures

standing at the microphone with one arm raised in a charged stage gesture

William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie Alex Chilton was photographed onWilliam S. Burroughs and Debbie Harry photographed in New York City in 1980 by Bobby Grossman. Here the Beat novelist William S. Burroughs sits beside Debbie Harry, the frontwoman of Blondie, in a pairing that captures the easy traffic between literature and pop in downtown New York. Burroughs had become a revered figure to punk and new wave musicians, his deadpan presence a fixture of the same Bowery and club world that produced Harry. By 1980