Photographs by Rhona Bitner, Foreword by Iggy Pop, Edited by Éric Reinhardt, Text by Natalie Bell and Jon Hammer

Publisher: Rizzoli

Prompted by the closing of New York’s famed CBGB, Rhona Bitner embarked on a thirteen-year journey to photograph 403 venues across twenty-six states and eighty-nine cities—the studios, concert halls, arenas, high schools, bars, ballrooms, prisons, and fields where the most memorable songs were inspired, recorded, performed, and listened to. Close to 300 of those photographs are included in this book.

I found the archival images of performers recording or playing in the venues that accompany the informative texts on each location. The book was released in September 2022.

Cover image courtesy of Rizzoli