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Photographs of Musicians by Laura Levine in Her First Exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents Laura Levine: Musicians, an insider’s look at the artists at the forefront of rock, punk, indie rock, post-punk, hip-hop, New Wave, and No Wave. This is the first one-person gallery exhibition featuring Levine’s photography, including her vintage gelatin silver prints – many one of a kind. The show features over 35 vintage and modern prints. Laura Levine: Musicians is being presented at Steven Kasher Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-82, the first New York exhibition surveying the extraordinary diversity of punk and post-punk graphic design. Levine is highly esteemed as a photographer and documentarian of the downtown NYC, London and Los Angeles music scene in the 1980s and early 90s. Her portraits of such seminal figures as Bjork, R.E.M., the Clash, Afrika Bambaataa, Tina Weymouth, DNA, the Ramones, Beastie B