#lizzy mercier descloux

Ramones, photo Lizzy Mercier DesclouxandMichel Esteban, NYC 1975

Ramoneson stage at CBGBs, photo by Lizzy Mercier Descloux andMichel Esteban, NYC 1975

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Lizzy Mercier Descloux

Lizzy Mercier Descloux and Seth Tillet photographed by Nehpets Notrot, White Street, 1979. (x)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, 1979

Lizzy Mercier Descloux at the Mudd Club, ca. 1980 (x)

Lizzy Mercier DesclouxandChet Baker,Rio de Janeiro, 1985

Lizzy Mercier Descloux as a kid, circa 60′s

HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY LIZZY !

Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, New York, 1975

Patti Smith and Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, Paris, 1976

Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban at Patti Smith’s One Fifth flat, New York, 1975

Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, Los Angeles, 1976

Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, ca. 1977

Lizzy Mercier Descloux photographed by Richard Hell, December 1976 (x)

Lizzy Mercier DesclouxandDidier Esteban photographed by Richard Young at a Sex Pistolsgig,100 Club festival, September 1976 (x)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, ca. 1979

Lizzy Mercier DesclouxwithDidier Esteban and friend Patrice in London, 1977 (x)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux, 1980 (x)

Lizzy Mercier DesclouxwinningLe Bus d’Acier, French rock prize, 1984

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French visionary/ singer/ poet Lizzy Mercier Descloux captured by Michael EstebaninPatti Smith’sNY apartment back in 1975.

Though to some she may appear to have been nothing more than a footnote to the careers of icons like Patti Smith, Richard Hell & Chet Baker, that audacious artist and devotee of Rimbaud&Godard was an innovator who witnessed numerous pivotal moments in musical and cultural history upon her arrival in New York, at a time when the city was becoming a melting pot for various  late-’70s subcultures, such as American Punk and No Wave.

An archetypal outsider feeling suffocated in her working class family environment in France, she decided to drop out of Art School and follow her partner Michael EstebantoNew York in themid-’70s, witnessing the birth of punk and no wave with the Ramones, James Chance and Patti Smith. She always stood out from the crowd: she started a punk zine with her partner, who co-founded ZE Records,befriendedPatti Smith who shared a mutual love for Rimbaud, became a muse for Richard Hell, released poetry books, appeared in Amos Poe’s documentary ‘Blank Generation’, made five albums in various no wave/ bouncing pre-Talking Heads post-disco/ Soweto jive/ loose jazz styles and marked herself out as a globe-trotter with more passport stamps than Tintin, living and travelling all around the world from the Bahamas&Rio De JaneirotoSouth Africa&Corsica, where she died in relative obscurity in 2004 from cancer.

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