James Mollison, the photographer who brought us Where Children Sleep, has a fantastic series called The Disciples in which he captures die-hard music fans (he calls them “tribes”). The results are a great example of the power of sub-culture.
Mollison photographed fans of Madonna, Iron Maiden, Kiss, Dolly Parton, 50 Cent, The Casualties, and many more. You should go check out them all..
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
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Asdf — May 24, 2012
none of the links are working, it says permission denied. :(
Xiao Mao — May 24, 2012
LINKY NO WORKY
Bekee — May 24, 2012
looks like his server is down.
decius — May 24, 2012
Are those pictures filtered for similarity? It looks at though they were told to dress like a [band] fan for the photo, either directly or indirectly.
April — May 24, 2012
Hah, I guessed the first group had something to do with Oasis before I read the caption.
Trash — May 24, 2012
The links in your post seem to be broken and very enticing - bad combo?
C1048497 — May 24, 2012
lol, what happened to the Rod Stewart fan sterotype of middle-aged women?
Not that it's accurate, I'm fifteen and a fan of his :)
Pablo Flores Pineda — May 25, 2012
link down
Wattsvillegirl — May 26, 2012
should totally have got manics fans in there, they really stick out as a subculture, but i've never seen oasis fans dress like that since 1996
Captain Pasty — May 27, 2012
Guys, the link doesn't work, but a quick search on google brought this up:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2008/may/16/disciples#/?picture=334199782&index=14
oofstar — June 1, 2012
how does he define a die hard fan? how does he figure out who at a show is one?