Hello Spinal Tap Anvil Antwoord. You see back stage. This project right here is a photo collection taken on tour with two German bands (Bosse and Frida). The photographer has the name Heinrich Holtgreve and is really good at taking photos and making one photo tell the story of the whole space at once (or lack of story if that’s the case, if you know what I mean.) This set’s meant to show through documentation that touring with a band’s definitely not all glamourous diamond baths and sex with dollar bills and cheese snacks. Definitely not. Take this journey and smell the glove.

9 Pigmentprints / 100x150cm
2009

It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. I’m in love with photographs of generally dirty or poorly kept spaces in buildings. What a simple wonder it is to see where people have left things. Drawings on walls, stickers filling mirrors, stains and burns.

These heavily trodden places have a more than invaluable stash of cultural information smashed into them. How to harvest it though is the question and the quest.

Holtgreve does well.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies bad taste category.