Product Description

The “punk house” may come in any number of forms. The most common type is often where a large group of like-minded punks cram into a house usually intended to accommodate two or three people, resulting in low rent and, thus, extended hours of leisure for the residents to pursue their true interests.

Punk House features anarchist warehouses, feminist collectives, tree houses, workshops, artists’ studios, self-sufficient farms, hobo squats, community centers, basement bike shops, speakeasies, and all varieties of communal living spaces. In over 300 images of fifty houses in twenty-five cities in the US, photographer Abby Banks finds the already weathered face of a seventeen-year-old runaway; the soft hands of a vinyl junkie (record collector); the mohawked show-goer; the dirty dishes in the sink; silk screened posters on the wall; and many other revealing glimpses of these anarchist interiors.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267851 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

About the Author
Abby Banks is an artist based in Brattleboro, VT. Abby traveled to over fifty punk houses across the nation in preparation for this book.

Thurston Moore is an artist, poet, and musician. He is a founding member of Sonic Youth, and the editor of a book Mixtape: The Art of Cassette Culture.

Customer Reviews

Interesting subject, mediocre execution
the quality of photography in this book is not good. some photos are out of focus and badly framed. it doesn't seem to be an issue with the printing. not much commentary either which would have been nice to read some commentary by the residents of the homes depicted, ie; to explain either decor or space utilization. clearly many of the spaces house people who are very politically/environmentally active; would have been nice to include some of that stuff.
kind of disappointing all said.