FUCK YOU HEROES

Back in print for the first time in twenty years, for the kids! And to celebrate the new feature documentary THE FUCK YOU HEROES. This cult-classic book features photographs that helped define skateboarding, punk, and hip-hop cultures in their golden age, rawest early days.

In a new 9″x9″ edition published by Rizzoli/UNIVERSE with a new dust jacket for this 3rd edition.

Originally self-published in 1994, Fuck You Heroes is a seminal and uncompromising look at these youth subcultures. This collection captures the early days of three powerhouse countercultures—skateboarding, punk, and hip hop—and the people who became the faces of those influential movements.

These images cemented Friedman as the ultimate chronicler of youth rebellion, rendered through bold, unfiltered film photography that pulses with energy, attitude, and authenticity. Subjects include a who’s who of skate, punk, and hip hop: the legendary Z-Boys of Dogtown, hip-hop artists Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, and Ice-T, and punk acts such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, and Dead Kennedys, among many others. Every image reflects the photographer’s unwavering ethic—intensity, integrity, and a passionate commitment to documenting people who lived their truth without compromise.

Honest, inspiring, and culturally essential, Fuck You Heroes remains a definitive visual chronicle of the movements that helped reshape music, style, and street culture.

The 2nd edition went OUT OF PRINT in 2012.

Glen E. Friedman’s 1st hardcover book (1994). An all time classic anthology that had five printings. Early Skateboarding, Hardcore Punk, and Hip-Hop like none other. The photo quality of the slightly revised latest editions had increased dramatically since the original. Due to deterioration of the original printing press films FUCK YOU HEROES is out of print. Most of the best images that were in FUCK YOU HEROES could now be seen bigger and better in his MY RULES book.

“If Glen E. Friedman’s pictures of seminal punk rockers. daredevil skateboarders and groundbreaking Def Jam artists were set to a soundtrack, it would have been “Rebel Without a Pause.” They, like the photographer, are energetic, gritty and awash with Old School cool.” – The Source

SORRY – THIS EDITION OF THE BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT.

Get MY RULES for the best of this book and FUCK YOU TOO all in one.

Hard cover – 11″x 11″ – 148 pages