'Punks, Poets & Politicians'

McKay Imaging Photography Studio and Gallery in Red Bank will open its latest photography exhibition, "Punks, Poets & Politicians, Photographs by Marcia Resnick," on Friday.

John Belushi, comic actor, September 1981 An opening reception will be held 7-10 p.m. Sept. 25 at McKay Imaging Photography Studio and Gallery, located on the second floor of 12 Monmouth St.

Resnick is a New York City photographer and educator. Her images have been shown internationally in galleries and are in major museum collections. Her work has been published in numerous counterculture books and periodicals, from the Paris Review to Rolling Stone Magazine, as well as in her selfpublished artist books and her photo-autobiography, "Re-visions."

It is their quality of "badness" which renders Resnick's subjects formidable to their opponents and endearing to their admirers.

Her confrontational images echo the audacity of punk music and punk style. The art, literary and rock 'n' roll worlds feature prominently in her work, which includes portraits of such enfants terribles as Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, John Belushi, Mick Jagger.

Mick Jagger, lead vocalist for the Rolling Stones, June 1980. The show will run through Nov. 12 at the gallery, where hours are Wednesday and Thursday, 1- 7 p.m., or by appointment.

For more information, call 732-842-2272 or visit www.mckayimaging.com.

William Burroughs, one of the inner circle of the "beat generation" writers and a counterculture hero, 1980.