Photo by Ron Sherman. Courtesy of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
Photographer Ron Sherman will be at Different Trains Gallery in Decatur, discussing his photographs of The Sex Pistols first show on North American soil on Thursday, November 9 at 7 p.m.
On January 5, 1978, British punk landed in Atlanta when the Sex Pistols played their American debut at The Great Southeast Music Hall in Buckhead's Lindbergh Plaza. Sherman was in the audience that night shooting pics for Newsweek Magazine.
It was just another night on the job for a working photographer. The media was steeped in a moral panic leading up to the show. Sherman's photos portray the group as what it was, a young rock'n'roll band.
Different Trains Gallery, 432 E Howard Ave. no. 24 in Decatur.
