RAMONES AT THE SUPREME COURT DANNY FIELDS SIGNED OVERSIZE PHOTO.

RAMONES AT THE SUPREME COURT DANNY FIELDS SIGNED OVERSIZE PHOTO. (image 3/[null, null, null])

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16x20" silver gelatin photo signed and dated in lower margin by photographer Danny Fields w/his ink stamp on verso. Trivial handling. NM. Fields managed the Ramones after first seeing them at CBGBs and began photographing them from the start. This image is remembered as perhaps his most iconic of the punk legends. Speaking to The Guardian in 2018 Fields recalled the circumstances of the photo stating; "This was taken in November 1976. Jimmy Carter had been elected president, Gerald Ford had lost. The Ramones had a show at the Cellar Door club in Washington and we had a free afternoon. I said: "Let's walk around and take some pictures." There are good backgrounds in Washington and I shot four rolls of film. This was taken in front of the United States supreme court. There was no one there, though. This was pre-bag search. I imagine now it would be swarming with police. They went up the steps and came down towards me, as I walked backwards to get the building in. The word irony is overused, but you can't overuse it with the Ramones because everything with them is ironic. And the irony here is these four leather-clad kids - who have come from a particular kind of rock'n'roll known as punk rock - strolling around the supreme court, which is inviolate."

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