…The Get Up Kids…over the holidays i was cleaning negatives, slides, and prints that occupy half of my home in New York. i found prints of The Get Up Kids that i photographed in late 1999 or early 2000. i haven’t looked at them since shortly after they were photographed.
they were in NY either touring or promoting the release of Something To Write Home About. i had been working with their publicist Lisa and was commissioned to do press photographs. we photographed a bunch of cross processed negatives in the snow on Chrystie Street, which were printed in several magazines like Alternative Press.
this photograph was taken where they were staying. i don’t remember taking this photograph. but i like it because of its candor. it’s a document and not a promotional photograph. i probably dismissed these feelings about it twenty-five years ago.
what i also find interesting are the items on the table, a teacup full of cigarette butts, Pay Day candy bar wrapper, cordless phone, an analog camera that wasn’t mine, a CD, bottle of Excedrin, and three cigarette boxes that look crushed. it’s cool that they trusted me to come back to the place they were staying because i don’t think a publicist would allow that today. the access was better than, and people seemed much more genuine.
Tags: Music, The Get Up Kids