NEW YORK
1976-1990
Edo moved to New York in 1976. He found a city slowly coming out of bankruptcy and lived the whole period of its renewal. Hit by the economic crisis, New York became affordable for young artists that began to move to SoHo and to the East Village attracted by the low rent abandoned factories and small apartments. These artists created a community that soon became the place to be. Before his eyes, the south side of Manhattan was turning into an open-air stage with people playing, painting, writing and acting.
Edo photographed the great protagonists of this historical moment in the course of their daily and night life.
“When Maripol and I went up the Empire State Building on our first day in town, I immediately realised that what laid in front of our eyes was the perfect backdrop for our projects”
 Coney Island 1981 |  Potassa & Maripol at Studio 54, 1978 |  Andy Warhol at Studio54, New York 1978 |
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 Andy Warhol at the Factory with the new issue of Interview Magazine, New York 1977 |  Andy Warhol at the Factory |  Debbie Harry & Edwige at Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party, New york 1981 |
 Bowie and Glenn O’Brien at GOB’s TV Party, New York 1978 |  Nina & Maripol, New York 1978 |  Ezther & Maripol on my roof, New York 1979 |
 Lucille & Carmel, New York 1979 |  Ronnie Cutrone’s Cage, Mudd Club, New York 1981 |  Grace Jones, Bahamas 1979 |
 Edwige, Ruth Marten, Bénédicte Siroux and John Venere, New York 1977 |  Olivier Mosset & Arto Lindsay, Brooklyn Bridge |  Ruth Marten, New York 1976 |
 Edwige by Ruth Marten, New York 1978 |  Studio 54, the Bride, New York 1978 |  The Plastics, New York 1979 |
 Screamers, New York 1979 |  Evan & John Lurie, 1979 |  Terence sellers, The Correct Sadist, New York 1979 |
 Leslie Fetish model, 1977 |  Madonna, New York 1983 |  Madonna & Martin Burgoyne, New York 1983 |
 Klaus Nomi, New York 1978 |  Vincent Gallo, New York 1984 |  Jean Michel Basquiat & Ezther Balint, New York 1981 |