Beaded String Theory
January / February, 2012
It's curious that as time marches on we romanticize urban America's down-and-out era. Perhaps fatigue from Rudy Giuliani's gentrification push of the 1990s has driven gritty New Yorkers to yearn for a little more smut than shine. New coffee-table book The Forty-Deuce helps explain why: It captures the Big Apple's early-1980s street culture through the photography of Australian-born Bill Butterworth. Harnessing the same swagger as Jamel Shabazz's classic Back in the Days, Butterworth's candid sho...
