London Calling (Armagideon Times), Issue #2
c.1979
A photocopied fanzine cover that channels the raw energy of late‑1970s punk by pairing a hand‑drawn masthead with a grainy, confrontational concert photograph to announce a radical music publication.
A high‑contrast, grainy black‑and‑white silhouette of a musician captured mid‑gesture fills the page beneath a boldly lettered masthead, its image reduced to grain and shadow and contained by rough, hand‑drawn border lines that feel urgent and improvised.
It embodies the DIY punk aesthetic and demonstrates how inexpensive photocopy technology and appropriated music imagery enabled underground communities to spread ideas and visuals outside mainstream media, helping define a new graphic vernacular.
Medium
Photocopy
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 8 1/4" (29.8 x 21 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Lawrence Benenson
Accession
288.2012
Palette
Exhibitions
