In the dwindling days of the Annenberg Space for Photography's "Who Shot Rock & Roll" exhibit, Ed Colver discusses his early years as an L.A. punk-rock shutterbug in his lecture, "Living in Chaos: Capturing The Birth of L.A. Hardcore." Minus the brief stint studying at UCLA, the Pomona-born Colver was a largely self-thought photographer perfectly suited for a self-taught genre; his first published photo for Bam magazine was of local performance artist/'70s punk musician Johanna Went. Colver would go on to shoot L.A. bands from Black Flag to Bad Religion to Social Distortion. His image of Wasted Youth singer Danny Spira splattered in blood made the cover of Steven...
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