Marcia Resnick

Marcia Resnick
Born(1950-11-21)November 21, 1950
Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
DiedJune 18, 2025(2025-06-18) (aged 74)
New York City, U.S.
EducationCooper Union, New York University, California Institute of the Arts
Known forPhotography
Websitemarciaresnick.com

Marcia Aylene Resnick (November 21, 1950 – June 18, 2025) was an American photographer, author, and graphic artist. She was born and lived in New York City.

Publications and exhibitions

Resnick's book of photographs and text, Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs:New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982, published November 10, 2015, has an Afterword written by Anthony Haden-Guest, and a contribution by Victor Bockris. An earlier book, published in 1978 by Resnick Re-visions, once out of print was reissued in 2019 by the Swiss publisher Edition Patrick Frey.

In 2016, the exhibition Marcia Resnick, Conception: Vintage Photographs 1974-1976 was shown at Deborah Bell Photographs gallery and reviewed by L'oeil de la photographie (the Eye of Photography magazine). Then in 2023 the Deborah Bell Gallery mounted another exhbiton of Resnick's work Marcia Resnick: Ahead of Her Time. The latter exhibiton was the fifth of Renick's work at the gallery

In 2024-2025, her works were included in the National Gallery of Art's exhibition, The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography and related online feature 12 Documentary Photographers Who Changed the Way We See the World.

Photographic subjects

Her photographs of musicians of the rock milieu appear on their album covers. Among the subjects of her photographs are John Belushi, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, John Lydon, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Johnny Thunders, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg.

Education, teaching, and journalism

Resnick studied at Cooper Union and New York University before going to graduate school at The California Institute of the Arts, where she studied with John Baldessari and Allen Kaprow. Back in New York, she taught at Queens College and NYU and worked for SoHo Weekly News and New York Magazine.

Personal life and death

Resnick married MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer in 1982, but they divorced a year later.

Resnick died from lung cancer at a hospice in Manhattan, New York City, on June 18, 2025, at the age of 74.

References

  1. ↑ Mathur, Anusha (June 20, 2025). "Marcia Resnick, photographer of punk's heyday, dies at 74". Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 22, 2025. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: NYC Bad Boys 1977-1982 | IT". Internationaltimes.it. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ Resnick, Marcia (November 10, 2015). Punks, Poets, and Provocaterurs:New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982 (First ed.). Insight Editions. p. 272.
  4. ↑ Resnick, Marcia (1978). Re-visions (First ed.). Toronto: Coach House Press. ISBN 0889100802.
  5. ↑ Smithson, Aline (September 19, 2019). "Marcia Resnick: Re-Visions".
  6. ↑ "Marcia Resnick, Conceptions - The Eye of Photography". September 16, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/deborah-bell-photographs-marcia-resnick-ahead-of-her-time/
  8. ↑ "The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography". www.nga.gov. October 6, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  9. ↑ "12 Documentary Photographers Who Changed the Way We See the World". National Gallery of Art. October 4, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  10. ↑ Abedian, Anita (November 17, 2015). "How Marcia Resnick used her camera to tame a generation of New York City 'Bad Boys'". Village Voice. These are the people who appeared and performed regularly at CB's, the Mudd Club, and Max's Kansas City. These are the people who gave readings at KCB Bar and made incendiary, avant-garde works of art. And most of them have this, too, in common: They've all been photographed by Marcia Resnick.
  11. ↑ "Marcia Resnick, Conceptions - The Eye of Photography". September 16, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016. I found that when I went to tourist spots, there would be people looking at places and I'd always see them from behind. That was the whole [Maurice] Merleau-Porty kind of philosophical thing: being in front and being behind--like being inside yoursself. I was also at that time in the iconography of body gestures. How you could read, from the way a person's body was from the back, almost as much, or as much, as you could from looking at a face in a portrait. . . .
  12. ↑ Associated, Press (February 2, 2024). "Wayne Kramer, co-founder of influential proto-punk band MC5, dies at 75". Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 20, 2025. Retrieved June 20, 2025.
  13. ↑ Green, Penelope (June 24, 2025). "Marcia Resnick, Whose Camera Captured New York's 'Bad Boys', Dies at 74". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 25, 2025. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Resnick, Marcia", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, October 31, 2011, doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00151284, retrieved June 21, 2025