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would sometimes be turned away – but that was part of the magic. “You had to have an entry there and it was very difficult to get in,” he adds. “I wish there was a place like that today; it was spectacular and unlike anywhere I’d ever been to. Everything was to the utmost decadence, and the people loved it. It was the whole scene to get in.”
Coupon grew up in Washington DC and now resides in Santa Fe. During the late 70s, though, he gravitated towards Manhattan. “As soon as I knew that New York existed, there was no other place to go in my life. I wanted to be somebody – although I’m not sure who that somebody was.” That somebody is what he would now describe as a “voyeur”, rather than a photographer.
After this, he moved his attention to the Mudd Club – a renowned punk rock venue in the Tribeca area of New York – as well as shooting portraits of people such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mick Jagger and Jimmy Carter. Upon reflection though, hisseries has had a profound influence on his work – more than he’d initially given it credit for. “Studio 54, in my opinion, is ironically quite portrait-like, with a style that takes people and isolates them in their environment,” he says.
Tenderbooks and Rare Photo Gallery are currently exhibiting 14 portraits from Studio 54: Disco Tribes. On view at
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