William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie and Lou Reed at a

and Lou Reed at a defining moment in the evolution of modern rock

Alex Chilton was photographed on the Bowery in 1977

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

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

William S. Burroughs with Debbie Harry, New York City, 1980 Blondie and Lou Reed at aWilliam 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