The curator of the Bande a part photo exhibition held earlier this month was also one of the featured photographers.
Maripol, who said she had fought for the then unknown Madonna, moved from France to New York in 1976 and made a name for herself as an art director and stylist.
She began documenting the lives of people around her with a Polaroid, and the results can be seen in her book, Maripolarama. What started as fun snapshots evolved into something else.
'It was more journalistic in a way but then it became more arty later,' she said. The same can be said for all of the photographers featured in the exhibition. 'They are interesting because of who they were, what they did back then and who they photographed,' Maripol said.
She recounted a story Danny Fields told her during the launch party in Hong Kong about when he discovered the Ramones at the now defunct club in New York's East Village, CGBG.
'He offered to manage them and the first thing they asked for was a new drum set. So Danny asked his mother for US$3,000 and bought them a big new drum set. That's how he became the manager of the Ramones.'