Music & nightlife | The birth of 'Grunge,' in photos by Michael Lavine | Seattle Times Newspaper:
"Despite its title, 'Grunge,' Michael Lavine's newest book of photographs, is not meant as a definitive history of Seattle's most infamous musical movement. When Lavine arrived in Seattle in 1982 and started shooting the punks, mods and Goths hanging out on the Ave in the U District, he wasn't trying to encapsulate a scene. When he moved to New York in 1985 and became the go-to studio photographer for the Sub Pop record label, he didn't believe his work was exhaustive. Even now, his book raises more questions than answers.
'It was punk until somebody decided to call it grunge. It really was. It wasn't grunge to us at the time,' Lavine says, laughing. 'That was one reason we named (the book) that, just to make people think about the word in a different way.'"
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