Order of Appearance

A second look into Jim Jocoy's archive of San Francisco punk photographs, this one turned toward the quiet moments between the poses that made his earlier work famous.

Structured in three short chapters spanning 1977 to 1980, Order of Appearance moves like vignettes from a single long night, tracking its subjects from delight to despair, sober to wasted, and back toward morning. Where Jocoy's earlier work captured club-scene style and spectacle, this selection favors tenderness: love, loss, and daily life among the young musicians and fans of the emerging West Coast punk scene. The book is bound in foil-embossed cloth with a tipped-on cover image, 84 pages and 44 full-color plates, published by TBW Books in an edition of 1,000.

Two decades earlier, Jocoy's photographs formed the core of We're Desperate, assembled with Thurston Moore and Marc Jacobs and widely regarded as a defining document of early West Coast punk fashion. Order of Appearance returns to that same archive to draw out what the first book left aside, with a blurb from Moore and a reflection from the photographer Jim Goldberg, who recalled Jocoy's stacks of Polaroids and prints as raw, intimate, and ahead of their time.