Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens

June 4–August 3, 2008

Bruce Conner's photographs from a legendary San Francisco nightclub document the demimonde of three-chord chaos that was the seventies punk scene, when acts like the Avengers, Negative Trend, and the Mutants were in their anarchic heyday. In his images, Conner captured both the outcry and the surrounding silence.

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  • Bruce Conner: Roz Makes a Giant Step for Mankind: Negative Trend, January 23, 1978; black-and-white photograph; 9 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.; museum purchase: bequest of Thérèse Bonney, Class of 1916, by exchange; photo courtesy of the artist.

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