RAMONES BY GEORGE DUBOSE

"I didn't really like punk rock when I made this shot. There is a very long story about this shooting for Subterranean Jungle that can be found in my book ‘I Speak Music - Ramones.’ As we will see, the band liked my fifteen minute photo shoots."

This image is an outtake for the front cover of the Ramones 1983 album Subterranean Jungle on Sire Records.

George DuBose shot the photo that would later become the cover for the B-52’s 1979 self-titled debut album. He captured Madonna during her first gig, created the cover art for the last nine Ramones albums and would go on to work with Tom Waits, REM, The Go-Go’s, Melissa Etheridge and Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

He captured icons in their infancy. DuBose was there, on the front lines, photographing artists who would influence decades of sound and style. His photographs evidence not only the beginning’s of such quintessential bands, but also the photographer who was there, unknowingly making legends of them both.

Now, House of Roulx is contributing in our own way by sharing DuBose’s works with both existing fans and an entirely new generation, so that they will also come to know the man who captured and help break the people who made music what it is today.