Photographer Theresa Kereakes Focues on Punk Deaths

By Andria Lisle

The Memphis Flyer | November 2, 2007

Kereakes's new show turns a critical eye on "live fast, die young" L.A. musicians such as Germs frontman Darby Crash, who died of a drug overdose in 1980; AIDS casualties such as Black Randy (who founded West Coast art-punk group Metrosquad) and Lance Loud; and Jeffrey Lee Pierce, who died of a brain hemorrhage at 37.

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