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Silver Spur is off to exhibit again and I'm over the moon about it. The exhibit it's gone to is so cool! It's called The Silent Cut and it's running in conjunction with the Lone Star Film Festival. Photographs included explore cinematic style narrative through contemporary still photography. Right up my alley, I know.

And. And! In the next gallery is Anger is an Energy, 50 years of Kate Simon's photography of the punk scene. I could not be more excited about this. If you're in DFW the next couple of months, be sure to check these exhibits out.

The Silent Cut
October 25 thru January 9
Ft. Works Art
Ft. Worth, TX
@fortworksart

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KATE SIMON: 50 YEARS OF PUNK
ANGER IS AN ENERGY OPENS TODAY!

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 25, 5-8 PM

On View: October 25 – January 9, 2027

@fortworksart is bringing the raw energy of punk to Fort Worth with @katesimon: Anger Is an Energy, an exhibition of photographs by one of the photographers who was there before punk had a name.

Opening October 25, 5–8 PM, this exhibition brings together Kate Simon’s photographs from the streets, clubs, and inner circles of a cultural movement that changed music, fashion, photography, and everything around it. Simon didn’t photograph punk from the outside. She was there, camera in hand, as artists like @the_clash, @sexpistols @thisispattismith @debbieharrydaily @iggypopofficial and @siouxsiehq and the Banshees, were becoming the people who would define an era.

CATALOGUES ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER. CONTACT THE GALLERY TO RESERVE YOURS TODAY.

Photo Credit: Kate Simon, The Sex Pistols, The Nashville Room, London, 1976, Contact the Gallery to Inquire

KATE SIMON: 50 YEARS OF PUNK

Fort Works Art
2100 Montgomery Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107

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Photographs of me taken by the legendary @katesimon

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THIS SUNDAY!!!
KATE SIMON: ANGER IS AN ENERGY opening reception October 25 in honor of the 50th year of Punk.
Image ©️ Kate Simon

One of the first writers to write about punk as a genre was John Ingham. He has written the foreword to Simon’s limited edition signed catalogue for the show. Order yours now.

Here is an excerpt…

“Kate started photographing Punk artists almost by accident. The Sex Pistols were only four months old but already making waves. She was at one of their concerts when a fight broke out between their manager and one of the audience. She got the shot but she also caught something else: how different and new and modern they looked. They looked Punk.

Half a century after Punk first erupted in London, New York and beyond, it is tempting to read the movement through its visual language. The safety pin, the vacant stare, the anti-Art graphics and the torn t-shirt have become a catalog repeatedly recycled by fashion arbiters, advertising creatives and museums — revolt reduced to style. But read backwards to its beginnings and Punk was something very different.”
- John Ingham

@katesimon @sexpistols

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ON SALE NOW
SIOUXSIE x SHEPARD FAIREY

A new limited-edition screen print. 600 worldwide.

Created from an extraordinary 1978 photograph of Siouxsie by Kate Simon, Shepard’s original illustration has been released as a numbered screen print signed by Shepard himself in a worldwide edition of just 600.

PRINT DETAILS:
Siouxsie, 1978.
24" H x 18" W.
Screen print on 80# cream Speckletone paper.
Original Illustration based on a photograph by Kate Simon.
Signed by Shepard Fairey.
Numbered edition of 600 worldwide.

Available via the Siouxsie.com and ObeyGiant.com web stores.

US-based customers are advised to buy through Obey Giant to save on shipping and taxes

@siouxsiehq
@obeygiant
@katesimon

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Las vidas que no vivimos
también dejan residuos.

Con ellos escribimos.

El peligro empieza
cuando ya no sabemos
qué parte fue recuerdo,
qué parte deseo,
qué parte ficción.

Por eso hace falta
un botón de desconexión.

Algo que apague
a quienes pudimos ser

para que respire
quien todavía somos.

#poesía #poema #literatura #ficción #deseo

📷 Kate Simon in Reflection: Quiet Room Self-Portrait

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‘TV Party’ At Hurrah
L-R Catherine Rebannack, Walter Steding, Kate Simon, Robert Fripp, Chris, Debbie, Glenn O’Brien, Edwige Belmore at the Hurrah club during taping an episode of the public access show ‘TV Party’ New York, February 15, 1979 🖤💚📸 Marcia Resnick #Debbieharry #Chrisstein #Blondie #tvparty #1970s

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SIOUXSIE x SHEPARD FAIREY
A new limited-edition screen print. 600 worldwide.

Siouxsie HQ is delighted to announce a new collaboration between Siouxsie (@siouxsiehq) and Shepard Fairey (@obeygiant)

Newly created from an extraordinary 1978 photograph of Siouxsie by Kate Simon, Shepard’s original illustration will be released as a numbered screen print signed by Shepard in a worldwide edition of just 600.

"I was honored to illustrate this portrait of Siouxsie based on an incredible photograph of her from when she was 21 years old in 1978. The shot was impromptu, on the streets of London's Ladbroke Grove, Kate Simon captured her in a beautiful way that compelled me to create this piece. I’m lucky to have worked with her on this portrait. I hope you put on a Siouxsie record from your collection or pick one up at your local record store, and explore the goth/punk universe she created!" - Shepard

PRINT DETAILS:
Siouxsie, 1978.
24" H x 18" W.
Screen print on 80# cream Speckletone paper.
Original Illustration based on a photograph by Kate Simon.
Signed by Shepard Fairey.
Numbered edition of 600 worldwide.
£80.

Available Friday 9th October at 6pm BST / 1pm ET / 10am PT through the @siouxsiehq and @obeygiant web stores.

US-based customers are advised to buy through Obey Giant to save on shipping and taxes.

Limit one per household. Duplicate orders will be cancelled.

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Siouxsie Sioux (@siouxsiehq) has been a cultural trailblazer and wrecking ball for 50 years, and continues to inspire and push the definition of punk rock far beyond the confines of a narrow style and into a world of creative fearlessness and versatility. I was honored to illustrate this portrait of Siouxsie based on an incredible photograph of her from when she was 21 years old in 1978. The shot was impromptu, on the streets of London’s Ladbroke Grove, but Kate captured her in a beautiful way that compelled me to create this piece. I’ve been a fan of Siouxsie since 1985, when the only artsy girl in my school who was intimidatingly self-possessed and wore nothing but black introduced me to her albums Kaleidoscope and Hyaena. Many Siouxsie songs like “Cities in Dust” and “Spellbound” have a beautiful, haunting quality to them, but her range is vast and her covers of “The Passenger” and “Dear Prudence” are even more exuberant than the original versions. I was also impressed to learn that Siouxsie was an early fan of the Sex Pistols and turned that inspiration into forming a band and becoming a music and fashion icon through courage, talent, and will. I’m lucky to have worked with her and her management on this portrait. I hope you put on a Siouxsie record from your collection or pick one up at your local record store, and explore the goth/punk universe she created!
-Shepard

PRINT DETAILS: Siouxsie, 1978. 24” H x 18” W. Screen print on 80# cream Speckletone paper. Original Illustration based on a photograph by @katesimon. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 600. $85. Available on Friday, October 9th @ 10 AM PDT at @obeygiant and @siouxsiehq web stores.

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The transatlantic dialogue between NYC and London punk was immortalised by photographers Roberta Bayley (CBGB desk manager and punk documentarian) and Kate Simon (who shot the iconic cover of The Clash’s debut album). Their legendary photography is celebrated in our October God Save The Queens exhibition at the Museum of Youth Culture.

Support the Up Yours! Collective and grab your chance to own a Gibson Les Paul guitar signed by The Clash.

Only 5 days to get your raffle tickets!

Link in bio!

https://raffall.com/426866/enter-raffle-to-win-gibson-guitar-signed-by-the-clash-hosted-by-upyourscollective

Photo Credit: Poly Styrene standing inside a New York shop (January 1978).
Photographe: Roberta Bayley

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M I R R O R 🪞M I R R O R 🪞📸 @katesimon #Debbieharry #katesimon #Blondie #beauty #punkprincess

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By and all, or by and large, as you say, the reading public’s disinterest in the novel of sensibility behooves itself very well. Or to put it differently, I am very different from most of you, and the older I get, the gladder. I should have come from a different country to entertain you with the horrors of my native land, but I didn’t. I came from your very midst, or you could say, your very mist. I am your very mist. But don’t be alarmed; you are not in the presence of a verbal fidget. If I strain too easily to push a pun into a profundity, it is only because I am at the end of my tether. I’ve taken too much acid, or I’ve been too lonely, or I’ve been educated beyond my intelligence, or however you want to explain me away. It’s a pity if someone has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it. It is really amazing how famous I am to those few who truly comprehend what I am about. I am the Voice of Suffering and I cannot be comforted. Many have tried but apparently, and mercifully, I am immune to their shabby consolations. I will capture your tear without hardly trying, in the vast net of my idle prattle. I am going to tell you such a love story that will make you happy because you are not me, but who knows, you may be sobbing behind your ecstasy, as I have hinted, or even promised. I think it’s a good story. I think it’s tough. I think it’s got fibre. I’ve told it to a lot of people and they all liked it. I’m going to tell it to you. Among my credentials, I am the creator of the Black Photograph. Ask some informed commuter on the subway and he might growl scornfully: Oh yeah, he’s the guy who takes a lot of trouble setting up a picture and then holds his hand over the lens when he snaps it. I am truly amused by this fictitious traveller’s conversation and I will let his description stand for the process of my art. My art, my eternity.

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Photo by Michael Putland

I will be the delight of future eyes when

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