The Strokes, Amy Winehouse, Killers, More Get Star Treatment in Piper Ferguson’s ‘Indie/Seen’ Photo Book
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music FOMO is such a strong human emotion that it defies logic, especially when looking at photos or video from Studio 54 or a Beatles concert or Truman Capote’s Black-and-White Ball… or, as “Indie/Seen,” veteran photographer Piper Ferguson’s new photo book demonstrates, the indie-rock scene of the early ‘00s.
LCD Soundsystem, Coachella 2016 (Photo: Piper Ferguson) It’s a time capsule of the era dominated by the Strokes, the Killers, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the White Stripes, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, the Rapture and many now-obscure acts from that scene, and even though the photos were taken 20-odd years ago, the artists are presented so vividly that it’s hard not to wish you were there.
Jenny Lewis with Rilo Kiley, Coachella, 2008 (Photo: Piper Ferguson) In Los Angeles, New York, Coachella and at Austin’s South by Southwest confab, we’re seeing them young, (often) inebriated, and thinking they’re the coolest people in the world, as only those who are too young and inebriated to know better can do.
Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Los Angeles, 2002 (Photo: Piper Ferguson) And there are also classic shots of artists from beyond the scene and/or era, like Beck, Bjork, Underworld, St.
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