Ray Stevenson - Not Just Punk - Book

NOT JUST PUNK – RAY STEVENSON

FIRST 25 COPIES SIGNED BY RAY STEVENSON

10 X 10 inch square format hardback book : 168 pages, over 200 photos

Ray Stevenson started out as a teenage darkroom apprentice back in mid 1960s London. After meeting with rising folk star Buffy Saint Marie, discovered folk-nights at the Marquee Club, then he was introduced to seminal folk venue Les Cousins by Sandy Denny.
Ray became a regular at both of these venues shooting many unknown musicians like Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, Al Stewart, John Martyn, Cat Stevens, Marc Bolan, Stumbling upon a Jimi Hendrix sound-check gave Ray a taste for plugged-in-guitars and opened up another trajectory that resulted in photographing a much broader range of musicians.

(His ‘Who at the Marquee 1967’ was used by the Royal Mail in their 2025 commemorative collection.)

But the Stevenson portfolio went beyond photographing the musicians of the day as his work also featured models, hippies, ballet dancers, the occasional film star and friends.
One of those friends was David Bowie, whom Ray shot many pre-glam photos of.

None of this activity was enough to pay the rent, so he took a 9-to-5 job in the BBC OU dark-room. 

Then in early 1976, Ray's brother Nils asked him to take some pictures of a new group called the Sex Pistols. And so began Ray's second wave of live visual work - capturing the nascent Punk movement and the New Wave and Post-Punk scenes that followed it.  His photos of the Pistols, Clash, Siouxsie Sioux, Soo Catwoman, Jordan, 2-Tone, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, et al are now rightly seen as iconic and have been used in numerous books, magazines and documentaries.  His own photo books - Sex Pistols File, Vacant, Siouxsie and the Banshees Book and Photopast - sold many thousands of copies worldwide and are regarded as collectors' items. 

In 2007  Ray was described 'as the most important rock photographer of his generation' 
He has now released ’Not Just Punk’, a look back at some glorious times and people, a 168 page 10x10 inch hardback.