Underground Living

by V. Vale (Photographer)

As editor of RE/Search, V. Vale has documented the major underground movements of the past century. Along the way he took over 100,000 photos. Here are 75 images of underground living selected from Vale’s vast photographic archive. Includes photographs of early Ramones, William S. Burroughs, John Waters, Nick Cave, Jello Biafra, Allen Ginsberg, J.G. Ballard, Andy Warhol, Genesis P-Orridge, Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch, Kathy Acker, George Kuchar and many more.

88 pages, Paperback

Published August 9, 2019

About the author

Japanese-American writer and publisher. He also played keyboards for the later famous power trio Blue Cheer.

In 1977 he started to publish the punk fanzine "Search and destroy" In 1980, he began publication of RE/Search, a tabloid format zine focusing on various counterculture and underground topics.

RE/Search later became always a format for books, of which Vale is a regular contributor.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe not one of the must have Re/Search books, it's a smaller volume, a random assortment of personal photos with captions by V. Vale. Definitely worth a look for counter-culture types. You know, THOSE people.