The definitive monograph of Glen E. Friedman a pioneer of skate punk and hip-hop photography
including much never-before-published work. Glen E. Friedman is best known for his work
capturing and promoting rebellion in his portraits of artists such as Fugazi Black Flag Ice-T
Dead Kennedys Minor Threat The Misfits Bad Brains Beastie Boys Run-D.M.C. and Public
Enemy as well as classic skateboarding originators such as Tony Alva Jay Adams Alan Ollie
Gelfand Duane Peters and Stacy Peralta and a very young Tony Hawk. Designed in association
with celebrated street and graphic artist Shepard Fairey this monograph captures the most
important and influential underground heroes of skateboarding punk and hip-hop cultures. My
Rules is an unprecedented window into the three most significant countercultures of the last
quarter of the twentieth century and Friedman's photographs define those important movements
that he helped shape. A remarkable chronicle and a primer about the origins of radical street
cultures My Rules is also a statement of artistic inspiration for those influenced by these
countercultures.
