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so8os: A Photographic Diary of a Decade

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Let's just say that if you are obsessed with the 1980's and everything it represents...you will love this book!
I mean, it is the largest book I own -- filled with hundreds & hundreds of photos -- people I have always loved from Madonna & Liza Minnelli to Andy Warhol & Boy George!!
It's also filled with essays & quotes -- pretty amazing to look at...it is hard to imagine nightlife like that because it really doesn't exist now! Patrick was a lucky guy!

I must admit that I am quite jealous of those who partied so glamorously in the 1980's and are still around to talk about it!! What insane times! This book sure gives all of it to you...
I really loved it and the images are striking.

This is a very memorable
and beautifully designed photo book.

It's exciting -- historical -- intense -- beautiful -- sad --crazy -- chaotic -- and free...it's really a million things, a million feelings...and put all onto over 400 pages!!

It's really worth owning and beyond words, the photographs speak for themselves.

so8os is soooooo cool!!
I can't wait for Patrick's next book...I wanted more and more and more...

I believe this to be the largest collection of an amazing and often, forgotten genre in photography: Nightlife documentation; like Weegee, Patrick McMullan relentlessly documented a historical and iconic era: the 1980's. From the nightclubs to the NYC streets that once contained freedom and reckless abandonment -- he photographed the legends, the artists, the musicians, both the "some-bodies" and the "no-bodies"...It's an enormous body of work: 432 pages with well over 500 B&W photographs... an extremely important book to have in one's collection!! Great for any collector and anyone who loved or lived in the 1980's!!!

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL RECORD OF AN INSPIRING TIME IN NYC -- YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN!

so8os is a brilliant book of nightlife photography...
it captures the essential essence of NYC nightlife in the 1980's -- it was exciting, captivating, and down-right glamorous!!

I just received a copy of so8os and I couldn't love a book more...I collect photo books and have seen Patrick around town for many years photographing parties and huge VIP events here in Manhattan. He is an amazing photographer...and I had no idea that he was going to release such a beautiful book!! It is beyond FABULOUS!!

How cool is this book!!
The fab celebs, musicians, infamous club people, artists...
I love it!! Love you, Patrick!!

Wow! I just received a copy of so8os in the mail and I was blown away! It's huge and filled with memories upon memories of the 80s...I lived through it and re-lived it again upon looking through this amazing book...it's a historical look back on a fabulous era!