Richard Edson
Movie Life
Bywater Bros. Editions, 2019
120 pp, 16 x 24.7 cm., softcover
Edition size unknown
Richard Edson was the original drummer for Sonic Youth, from 1981 to 1982. After the release of their self titled debut, he left the band to play with Konk, who remained active as part of New York’s post-punk dance scene until 1988, playing alongside bands such as Liquid Liquid, Bush Tetras, ESG, and John Lurie's Lounge Lizards.
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch cast Edson and Lurie in his second film, Stranger Than Paradise (1984), a low budget indie that went on to win the Camera d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1985 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film. Since then Edson has appeared in over 100 films, including Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, Wim Wenders' The Million Dollar Hotel, Oliver Stone's Platoon, and Alex Cox’s Walker.
Edited by Edson and publisher Roger Bywater, Movie Life is an inside portrait of the film industry by the veteran character actor. The black and white photographs were taken over a period of 30 years and feature portraits of famous friends and colleagues such as Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, Dee Dee Ramone, Ed Harris, Laurie Metcalf, Holly Hunter and John Sayles. The book features images of film production, location shoots, press junkets and promotional interviews.
“Becoming an actor was a good excuse to take photographs. The places I was went, the people I met, plus being involved in the whole machinery of film making was a subject that was too great to pass up.”
- Richard Edson, epilogue
Available for $35 from the publisher, here.
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