Punk Daze: Los Angeles 1977-84 by John Brian King

Punk Daze: LA 1977-84 mixes an energetic street photography aesthetic with an eye for the absurd. Photographs of Disneyland at night are interspersed with shots of John Lydon (of Public Image Ltd) performing on ABC-TV’s American Bandstand. Art school parties and punk shows follow dreamlike shots of forgotten LA scenes, from neon-lit movie theaters to ironically graffitied basements.

Riviera: Photographs of Palm Springs by John Brian King

Riviera documents the eerie fragments of existence left behind in one city. John Brian King photographed Riviera from 2016 to 2018 in Palm Springs, California, and its surroundings; a full-time resident at the time, he used a cheap instant film camera to give his photographs a unique, washed-out, hazy aesthetic.

Ghost Variations by John Brian King

A collection of instant black-and-white photographs of the California desert at night, beautifully depicting an aimless, enigmatic state of wandering.

DEATH TO THE FASCIST INSECT
THE SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY
Edited by John Brian King

Death to the Fascist Insect is a compilation of the writings and transcribed recordings of the Symbionese Liberation Army (1973–75), a radical left-wing group based in the Bay Area of California. This publication chronicles the militant, if half-baked, political theories that inspired the SLA, as well as the ways that the SLA used violence and manipulation of the media to further the group’s goal of provoking armed revolution from the underground.

LAX: Photographs of Los Angeles 1980–84 by John Brian King

“Newly uncovered, these shots form a porthole into a long-gone era; the LA of old school Hollywood glamour is invisible here, concealed by the clamor of everyday life.” – AnOther Magazine

LAX is comprised of two series of black-and-white images of a metropolis that has now vanished. In the first series, “LAX,” photographer John Brian King engaged in street-style photography in one of the city’s most charged places: Los Angeles International Airport. In the second series, “LA,” King photographed a city at night devoid of people.

The black-and-white film negatives of LAX remained in a box for thirty years; they have now reemerged as the unsettling traces of 1980s Los Angeles.