1.) Bertogilo's photographs are uncensored accounts of his daily life in the New York with famous people of the 70s and 80s. The photos were taken on a polaroid camera and only a few appear to be staged. Most of the photos seem to be snapshots of random daily happenings with no adjusted light or added backgrounds
2.) The purpose of these photographs was to show what the daily life on the lower east side was like in the late 70s to 80s and what it was like to be young and part of the creative scene at the birthplace of the punk scene. Bertogilio's photos are a personal diary of the life of him and his friends through their eyes to capture moments that few got to see and that could never be fully recreated in the grunge of this time in a media that is hardly produced nowadays.
3.) These pictures are interesting to me because I did not experience the late 70s or even 80s and to see how people look, what they wore and what was considered creative at the time is eye opening to me. To see notable young artist through Bertogilio's lens is cool because it seems he kept such interesting company, the pictures at the time didn't mean anything because some of these people were not yet famous, but the pictures are important now because of who is represented in them and what they mean to our popular culture.
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