FADER
magazine
September 2007
Glen E Friedman Keep Your Eyes Open
(Burning Flags Press)
For a band so careful about how they were represented, it follows that Fugazi only allowed themselves to be documented by the most righteous of dudes. Glen E Friedman fits bill as a photographer famous for his images of the original Dogtown skaters, mid-’80s hiphop game changers and the birth of hardcore. Mainly shot when Fugazi came to play New York or when Friedman would travel to their hometown of Washington DC, the book follows the band’s 18-year journey from their shirtless-in-the-sweatbox early days to their tribe-gathering end stages. Though there some before-the-gig portraiture, the majority of Keep Your Eyes Open’s material comes from Friedman’s live-on-stage work—the place where Fugazi’s urgent energy transformed them into modern folk heroes. ED