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6 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
PRAISE FOR GLEN E. FRIEDMAN, 15 May 1997
By A Customer
"It's odd how many of the photographs are familiar.
Five minutes with the book and I'm counting the
number of shots that were on my bedroom wall
growing up." -NEW YORK PRESS
"Many of these pictures are recognized as the
subjects' definitive portraits, and it's a
revelation to find they were all created by
one man... Friedman is in awe of the loudest
loud young mouths of the last fifteen years.
He respects their impact immensely and he's
committed to passing inspiration around."
-WARP MAGAZINE
"Fuck You Heroes & Fuck You Too have all star
casts that'll make any coffee table look dope."
-SLAP MAGAZINE
"If Glen E. Friedman's pictures of seminal punk
rockers, daredevil skateboarders and ground-
breaking Def Jam artists were set to a soundtrack,
it would have to be "Rebel Without A Pause". They,
like the photographer, are energetic, gritty and
awash with old school cool... If you're into
grunge, hip-hop, or skateboarding now, this is
the photo album of your roots." -SOURCE MAGAZINE
"The lineup of defiant faces and quotations he's
assembled is a challenge to all up-and-comers."
-REQUEST MAGAZINE
"This book is an important social document...
'People need to see these pictures; they need to
be reminded of what they were like when they were
young.' And that according to Friedman is the
point: 'Who needs to grow up? All you do is
lose your integrity, lost your ideals,
lose your drive.'" -VIBE MAGAZINE
"Honesty, unfettered by dogma and convention,
can only survive outside of limitations,
Fuck You Heroes and Fuck You Too are pictorial
documentation of that wide open world...
Seeing these edgy, exciting images in one package
is an unforgettable experience... FYH & FYT
are not for those who think punk, rap or skating
is a fashion statement. It's only for those who
had no choice but to grow up different, real and
true." -RIP MAGAZINE
"Up close and intense... It gets to the nut,
then cracks it." -SPIN MAGAZINE
"In Friedman's images--bird-flipping skaters,
snarling punks and posing-hard rappers alike--
the overarching message appears to be more than,
simply, fuck you. It is instead fuck you with a
subtext: I reject you outright. Reject you and
all of your stupid, petty beliefs and limitations;
I am against you and that for which you stand,
so high and mighty. In the shorthand for ,
the sub-language of the moving body: the finger.
I don't need to talk to you. Fuck you.
Think for yourself." -NEW YORK PRESS
"For nearly two decades, Glen E. Friedman's
noted photo work has served as a historical
log on the seminal suburban/urban subculture.
From his earliest days as a 13-year old
skateboarder photographing top mid-to-late
70's skate icons like Jay Adams and Tony Alva,
to his documentation of the burgeoning
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