"When Kurt Cobain's slurred screaming-as gruff as it goes-became the angsty voice of a generation when "Nevermind" fired up radio stations in 1991, young people in the singer's hometown of Seattle had already moved on. They had been raging to Nirvana's early grunge through the late '80s. Seattle had suddenly found itself planted on the music map and, over the next few years, would become the crucible of American alternative music-with a serious teenage problem."
"In the early '90s, the Emerald City's next generation of performers weren't spending their Friday nights rocking out at Cobain concerts. They were being hounded away from clubs due to stringent teen liquor laws. It was amidst this conservatism that a barely legal 21-year-old Bootsy Holler moved to Seattle in 1992 and started photographing the wasteland of post-grunge Seattle ruled by bands like Death Cab for Cutie and Maktub-which America didn't know about just yet."
Bootsy Holler moved to Seattle in 1992 at age 21 and photographed the city's post-grunge music scene through 2004. Stringent teen liquor laws and the Teen Dance Ordinance pushed underage crowds away from clubs and into alternative spaces. Emerging bands such as Death Cab for Cutie and Maktub formed amid that conservatism and found audiences outside the mainstream grunge circuit. Hundreds of photographs from that era remained unseen for decades and are now collected in a photobook titled Making It: 1992-2004. Personal details include appearances at Paris Photo, a Pink Floyd t-shirt, and an anecdote about hiding an AC/DC tape to avoid parental scrutiny.
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