Ken Scrudato It’s actually a bit difficult to fathom now, but when legendary nightclub photographer Steve Eichner was first plying his trade in the ’90s, there was no social media, and barely an Internet with which to generate buzz around a candidly captured celebrity image.“My actual job was to get publicity for the clubs,” Eichner recalls, “which meant photographing celebrities.
So if Julia Roberts walked into the club at 3 a.m., my beeper would go off, and I’d get up and head there to photograph her.”But the movie stars, obviously, weren’t nearly as much fun as the rock stars, something which is fully evident in his visually flamboyant new photo book “In the Limelight: The Visual Ecstasy of NYC Nightlife in the 90s,” which captures all.
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