NEW YORK (AP) – Forty-one years after Blondie hit the music scene, frontwoman Debbie Harry is looking back – but not through her music.
Instead, band co-founder Chris Stein is offering an insider’s view with a show of photographs that he began shooting before Blondie was formed.
At a private opening Monday, the 69-year-old Harry, her lips painted into a perfect red bow of a mouth, blond hair and downtown-cool black clothes, posed for cameras with Stein, then reflected on a life spent in music.
“I don’t know if I really thought about it too much in terms of a long future,” she said of the early days. “I think it was sort of a day-to-day kind of momentum, just to sort of keep going. I don’t think either of us had a long plan … I think it was really just if we can get through next week, we’ll be doing all right.”
Stein, 64, said he began the decades-long series of photos in 1973 when he and Harry formed The Stilettos. The exhibit coincides with the release of Stein’s photo book, “Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk” (Rizzoli).