Dave Treat’s 1977 Dead Boys Photos Go on View at Waterloo’s Space: ROCK Gallery

Fri 6/29 @ 5-9PM

Sat 6/30 @ noon-7PM

Back in 1977, budding photographer Dave Treat lived in the same apartment building as Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys, just before they moved to New York and became famous (or infamous). Treat identified Bators, a gifted self-presenter, as the perfect subject to experiment with. That led to shoots with the band amidst the then more-plentiful ruins of Cleveland’s urban core.

Treat never pursued that line of work, and the photos never saw the light of day until he rediscovered them a few years ago, and mounted an exhibit at a former Waterloo Road gallery run by photographer Bryon Miller. That lead to the book, Dead Boys 1977: The Lost Photographs of Dave Treat, published last year.

If you missed the earlier show and would like to see the photos outside the pages of the book, they will be on view at Waterloo’s Space: ROCK Gallery starting Fri 6/29 @ 5-9pm (prior to the new Dead Boys lineup taking the stage next door at the Beachland Ballroom) and Sat 6/30 @ noon-7pm during the Waterloo Arts Fest. This show includes 20 previously unseen images, newly printed by Treat and will include concert photos from the Dead Boys’ 1977 Cleveland Agora show with the Dictators.

The exhibit is free and open to all. It will be on display through the Beachland Flea Market Sat 7/21.

Cleveland, OH 44110

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