Photography of Bruce Kalberg

Freshjive and Part Time Punks present an art opening/event of the photography of Bruce Kalberg. Michael Stock of Part Time Punks will be DJing throughout the night and refreshments will be served gratis.

From 1979-1984 Bruce Kalberg photographed virtually every band and personality against the backdrop of the first rush of Punk Rock in Los Angeles and Hollywood. As publisher and chief creative force behind NO MAGAZINE (NOMAG) Bruce photographed both the music and art scene nightly in his studio in Echo Park creating a portrait of fashion and underground culture like no one else. This was the real culture made up of outsiders, losers, immigrants, Punk Rockers from generation one (‘76-’82) living in Hollywood thirty years ago, more crudely wrought lives outside of the sparkle and spotlights than the Entertainment Industry would have you imagine. In 2005 Bruce Kalberg, under the name of Bruce Caen, published Sub-Hollywood, the story of a 1980s publisher of a counter culture magazine. The novel is the story of an underground music magazine publisher in his 20s finding his way through the Los Angeles art world and the raucous tough Punk music scene.