MY PUNK ROCK LIFE - The Photography of Marla Watson

My Punk Rock Life –
The Photography of Marla Watson
Earth Island Books

Hardback
254 pages. 8.5 x 11 (280 x 216mm)

“A crucial document on the early days of US hardcore!”
“A great archive of that time period. The bands, the people, the
venues... everything is so well documented.”

With over 300 high quality and rarely seen images from the infancy of the hardcore punk scene featuring seminal acts such Black Flag, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, The Misfits, The Damned, Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, The Vandals, Channel 3, The Adicts, Stiff Little Fingers, Shattered Faith, Fear, White Flag, Youth Brigade, Social Distortion, Angry Samoans, Battalion of Saints, Redd Kross, 7 Seconds, Suicidal Tendencies, Descendents, Bad Brains, Discharge, UK Subs, The Clash, The Varukers, English Dogs, T.S.O.L, The Lewd, Subhumans, Red Scare, Ill Repute, The Pandoras, The Blades, The Bangs, Toy Dolls, Sin 34, GBH, The Dickies, DOA, and the list goes on!

These photos have sat in a box, untouched for forty years. Now Marla is sharing her photography with the world in her first book; ‘My Punk Rock Life’.

In the early ‘80s Marla was a journalism major in college, when she met a punk boy on the school paper and the two decided to start a fanzine. Marla owned a camera, so she became the photographer. The pair managed to put out one issue of the Skank Magazine before breaking up, but Marla kept on going to shows and taking pictures.

Marla’s photos have been used on LPs by Minor Threat and Channel 3.

Most of Marla’s work remained unseen until this book.