Behind-the-Scenes Polaroids of Public Image Limited’s Heyday

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A new photo book by former Public Image Limited member Jeannette Lee sheds light on the band’s formative years. We take an exclusive look inside...

, now best known as the co-director of iconic independent label Rough Trade Records, inviting her into the PiL fold as a “non-musical member” of the group to help with press, promotion and general administration. Thus ensued a magical period of innovation and cooperation which saw PiL rise to greater and greater heights, blazing an avant-garde, post-punk trail.

It is in this intimate setting that many of Lee’s pictures are staged, taken from 1980 onwards, after the purchase of her Polaroid SX-70 camera on a trip to New York. “The quality of the pictures was so good. I had a stint of having it with me all the time. Taking pictures everywhere I went,” she tells Cocker. Lee was a natural photographer, her snapshots rendered in dreamy hues and boasting compelling compositions.

: “It was all or nothing. It was living.” As Cocker observes in the book’s introduction, “You can look at these pictures and see people living together, working together, exploring together, experimenting together. Where does the play end and the work start? Can anyone tell? Is there a difference? Witness an attempt to found a new society, behind closed doors, staying up for days on end, definitely not playing by the rules.

and Jarvis Cocker will sign 100 copies at Dover Street Market London from 6-7.30 at Dover Street Market London on May 18, 2017.

 

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