Marcia Resnick
Marcia Aylene Resnick (November 21, 1950 – June 18, 2025) was an American photographer, author, and graphic artist. She was born and lived in New York City.
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Marcia Resnick
- Name
- Marcia Resnick
- Born
- 21 November 1950
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
- Died
- 18 June 2025
- Place of death
- New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Cooper Union, New York University, California Institute of the Arts
- Known for
- Photography
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer · artist · graphic designer · picture editor
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Marcia Aylene Resnick (November 21, 1950 – June 18, 2025) was an American photographer, author, and graphic artist. She was born and lived in New York City.
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Marcia Resnick (1950–2025) was an American artist, graphic designer and photographer, among other activities. The artist was born in Brooklyn.
Marcia Resnick studied at California Institute of the Arts, Cooper Union and New York University. The artist worked for New York University and Queens College. Works by Marcia Resnick are held at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and Photography Collection, among others.
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Biography
Marcia Resnick studied at California Institute of the Arts, New York University and Cooper Union. Employment is recorded with Queens College and New York University. Work by Marcia Resnick is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Photography Collection.
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Key facts
• Name — Marcia Resnick • Born — 21 November 1950 • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. • Died — 18 June 2025 • Place of death — New York City, U.S. • Education — Cooper Union, New York University, California Institute of the Arts • Known for — Photography • Website — marciaresnick.com
Personal life and death
Personal life and death
Resnick married MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer in 1982, but they divorced a year later. Resnick died from lung cancer at a hospice in Manhattan, New York City, on June 18, 2025, at the age of 74.
Identity
Identity
Marcia Resnick is recorded with the occupation graphic designer. Recorded with the occupation picture editor. Recorded with the occupation visual artist. Recorded as having studied at California Institute of the Arts, New York University and Cooper Union.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1950
Marcia Resnick was born on 21 November 1950.
2025
Marcia Resnick died on 18 June 2025.
Publications and exhibitions
Resnick's book of photographs and text, Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs:New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982, published November 10, 2015, has an Afterword written by Anthony Haden-Guest, and a contribution by Victor Bockris. An earlier book, published in 1978 by Resnick Re-visions, once out of print was reissued in 2019 by the Swiss publisher Edition Patrick Frey. In 2016, the exhibition Marcia Resnick, Conception: Vintage Photographs 1974-1976 was shown at Deborah Bell Photographs gallery and reviewed by L'oeil de la photographie (the Eye of Photography magazine). Then in 2023 the Deborah Bell Gallery mounted another exhbiton of Resnick's work Marcia Resnick: Ahead of Her Time. The latter exhibiton was the fifth of Renick's work at the gallery In 2024-2025, her works were included in the National Gallery of Art's exhibition, The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography and related online feature 12 Documentary Photographers Who Changed the Way We See the World.
Photographic subjects
Her photographs of musicians of the rock milieu appear on their album covers. Among the subjects of her photographs are John Belushi, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, John Lydon, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Johnny Thunders, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg.
Education, teaching, and journalism
Resnick studied at Cooper Union and New York University before going to graduate school at The California Institute of the Arts, where she studied with John Baldessari and Allen Kaprow. Back in New York, she taught at Queens College and NYU and worked for SoHo Weekly News and New York Magazine.
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- 1.Mathur, Anusha. Marcia Resnick, photographer of punk's heyday, dies at 74. Washington Post. 20 June 2025.
- 2.Punks, Poets and Provocateurs: NYC Bad Boys 1977-1982 | IT. Internationaltimes.it.
- 3.Resnick, Marcia. Punks, Poets, and Provocaterurs:New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982. Insight Editions. 272. November 10, 2015.
- 4.Resnick, Marcia. Re-visions. Coach House Press. 1978. 0889100802.
- 5.Smithson, Aline. Marcia Resnick: Re-Visions. September 19, 2019.
- 6.Marcia Resnick, Conceptions - The Eye of Photography. 16 September 2016.
- 7.https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/deborah-bell-photographs-marcia-resnick-ahead-of-her-time/
- 8.The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography. www.nga.gov. October 6, 2024.
- 9.12 Documentary Photographers Who Changed the Way We See the World. National Gallery of Art. October 4, 2024.
- 10.Abedian, Anita. How Marcia Resnick used her camera to tame a generation of New York City 'Bad Boys'. Village Voice. November 17, 2015.
- 11.Marcia Resnick, Conceptions - The Eye of Photography. 16 September 2016.
- 12.Associated, Press. Wayne Kramer, co-founder of influential proto-punk band MC5, dies at 75. Washington Post. 2 February 2024.
- 13.Green, Penelope. Marcia Resnick, Whose Camera Captured New York's 'Bad Boys', Dies at 74. The New York Times. June 24, 2025.
- 14.Oxford University Press. Resnick, Marcia. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011-10-31. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00151284.
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