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March 11, 2013

Stunning Eighties Shots: Debbie Harry, Anna Sui, and More

By Hilary Moss

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Photo: Edo Bertoglio

From Document Journal’s second issue — on sale tomorrow — comes a look back at the New York City skyline from 1977 to 1982, as captured by Edo Bertoglio and narrated by Glenn O’Brien. Bertoglio, a Swiss photographer, regularly helped with O’Brien’s public access program TV Party (it was a “cocktail party that could be a political party!”) and the two worked on Downtown 81, a movie featuring the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. During the same period, Bertoglio took snapshots of “the real monuments of the evanescent time, the wonders of our world and the glories of our landscape” on his roof, as O’Brien writes in Document, like Anna Sui, Debbie Harry, and Patti Astor.

He dubs them “the all-star team of the age: ingénues and leading ladies, starlets and strumpets, muses and genies, tarts and temptresses, divas and desperadoes, seductresses, teasers and torturers, vamps and tramps. All of them true personalities with style that ran deep. They were their own creators, their own stylists and their own designers. They didn’t buy a look or borrow one from a couturier, they conjured glamour out of thrift shops and thin air.” O’Brien adds, justly, “these pictures make me miss makeup.”

Click ahead to see Bertoglio’s photos as featured in Document.

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Maripol, 1977 "They were shot on our roof on the East Side near the Water Tower. I had ample wardrobe and I stood as a girl scout, makeup ar... Maripol, 1977 "They were shot on our roof on the East Side near the Water Tower. I had ample wardrobe and I stood as a girl scout, makeup artist, stylist, and assistant. When you look at the C-Prints, it's like looking in a mirror." Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Anna Sui, 1981  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Debbie Harry, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Karin, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Robin Wright Penn, 1982  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Valda, 1980  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Anita, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Anya Phillips, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Suzanne Mallouk, 1982  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Lisa Rosen, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Terrence Sellers, 1981  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Ann Carlyle, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Eva, 1978  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Kiri, 1982  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Chica, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
Patti Astor, 1979  Photo: Edo Bertoglio
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