Exploring San Francisco’s early punk scene of the late 70’s

Almost 20 years after the release of his first monograph, We’re Desperate, produced with the help of Sonic Youth front man Thurston Moore and fashion designer Marc Jacobs, widely regarded as the definitive catalogue of early West Coast punk fashion, Jocoy’s archive of previously unseen photographs has been re-examined and to compose Order of Appearance, a work that humanizes his young subjects as they go through their daily lives sharing the tender moments of love and loss that came to encapsulate the late 70s and early 80s as the Summer of Love slowly eroded and gave way to punks’ disaffected view of the world.

Spanning three short years from 1977 to 1980, the book is structured in three chapters, vignettes from a one night affair where emotions range from delight to despair, sober to wasted, clear to blurry to half-way-clear-again by morning. Through the ruckus and grit Jocoy reveals touching moments of restless youth. The book is available to buy here.