August 05, 2019

'Frame of Mind' - photos and essays on women in punk

Fierce women on stage doing their actual work. They sweat and make awkward faces. Wrinkles in their brows and the cellulite in their arms. Their eyes glaze over when the groove is strong... their eyes focus on the drummer to cue in the bridge verse. Untied shoes and precariously coiled amp cables - those are all subjects in the first book by Antonia Tricarico, 'Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays from Washington, DC, and Beyond, 1997-2017'. Photos are made by a woman, the subjects of these photos are mostly women. and all the essays are written by women, PopMatters writes in review of the book, and discusses the difference between feminism and femaleness.