Stanley Greene
Western Front
Stanley Greene
born in 1949 in New York (United States) - dead in 2017 in Paris (France)
Stanley Greene's The Western Front is an immersion in San Francisco's punk scene between 1975 and 1985. These images were from Stanley Greene's personal diary when he was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Their sequence creates a frantic rhythm that highlights the hyperactive nature of the anarchic youth. These photographs preview the style and approach that will become Stanley Greene's signature, one that his now celebrated across the globe.Read more
The title The Western Front is a reference to Erich Maria Remarque's book All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as a club called Western Front, which opened in the late sixties and became a icon of San Fransisco's psychedelic punk scene.
