"If you don’t know Patrick McMullan, you ought to get out more!"

-Andy Warhol

A consummate chronicler, Patrick McMullan began his career in the early 1980s shooting the downtown scene alongside nightclub scribe Stephen Saban for the original Details magazine, with nothing more than an Instamatic camera and the encouragement of Andy Warhol. In so8os, he brings us back into the exclusive world of glamour and glitz as it was experienced by the era’s greatest fashion, music, and art icons that mixed uptown elitism with downtown eccentricity in New York City’s nightlife. Shot in such legendary nightspots as Studio 54, Area, Danceteria, Limelight, and the Cat Club, so8os features unreleased photos from the Patrick McMullan archives. In these pages, McMullan shares with us his photographic diary that holds the essence of New York characters and night crawlers.

"Patrick McMullan has come to epitomize not just a certain strata of celebrity, but the bona fide celebrification of the photographer."

-David Friend