//Gerry Visco in SEX Cowboys t-shirt and leather miniskirt, The Park Royal, NYC, 1976. © Bobby Busnach//

These captivating 70s images stem from the amazing photographic archive of New York DJ legend Bobby Busnach.

Many feature Busnach’s friend and muse, the fabulous writer/photographer/performer Gerry Visco, as well as the circles they moved in at NYC’s Park Royal Hotel, Boston disco/bar The Other Side and the nascent hip-hop scene in the South Bronx.

//Visco, Hillside Avenue,Boston, 1973. (c) Bobby Busnach//

//Donnie Ward, Hillside Avenue, 1974. © Bobby Busnach//

//Tony Roldan (centre) at the handball courts at 146th Street and Brook Avenue, the Bronx, 1976. © Bobby Busnach//

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Tags: Arisa, Bobby Busnach, Boston, Charles Jourdan, Donnie Ward, East Village, Fayja, Fiorucci, Gerry Visco, Ian's, Lyn Collins, MJ, Performa 13, Second Avenue, SEX, South Bronx, Stardust Memories, The Dakota, The Other Side, The Park Royal, Think About It, Tony Roldan, Tori Wrånes, Yes Nix

//David Bowie As The Elephant Man by Derek Boshier, 1980 © Derek Boshier c/o Flowers Gallery//

Today the National Portrait Gallery unveiled Imaginary Portraits, a selection of works by artist Derek Boshier, who is the subject of a monograph I am editing.

Prominent are two studies of David Bowie; an oil-on-canvas painting executed in New York in 1980 while Bowie was rehearsing for his role in Bernard Pomerance’s play The Elephant Man at the city’s Booth Theatre and a 1981 ink-on-paper drawing which resulted from Boshier’s design for the sleeve for the album Lodger a couple of years earlier.

//Outer gatefold sleeve, Lodger, David Bowie, RCA, 1979. Design Derek Boshier, photography Brian Duffy//

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Tags: Bernard Pomerance, Boston, Brooklyn, David Bowie, Gallery 360, Imaginary Portraits, Light Industry, Lodger, Lord Snowdon, Malcolm Morley, National Portrait Gallery, Paul Moorhouse, Royal College Of Art, The Elephant Man