Sunny Bak is an American photographer. She shot the gatefold image of the Beastie Boys on the Licensed to Ill album, and the infamous Lesbian cover for Newsweek in June 1993, which still ranks among their top ten selling issues.[citation needed]
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Photography career
- 2.1 1970s
- 2.2 1980s
- 2.3 1990s
- 2.4 Sunny [Explicit]
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Early life
Sunny Bak was born in Manhattan to Chinese-Indonesian and Korean parents.
Photography career
1970s
Sunny Bak began shooting pictures in 1972 at Woodside Junior High School in Queens, New York for her moot paper at the age of twelve. Her first subjects for the paper included The Supremes and the Broadway accomplishment casts of 1776 and Two Gentlemen of Verona. The studious paper rejected her interview once Carly Simon upon the grounds that Simon was an unexceptional at the time. Bak sold the interview to Aktuil, an Indonesian stone magazine, for $100—her first sale.
Sunny Bak opened her first studio in 1976 on Broadway and 18th Street in Manhattan though attending City-As-School. The studio was located at 876 Broadway which was owned at the grow old by photographer William Biggart, the lonesome journalist to die from the 9/11 attacks. At the similar time, Sunny Bak was studying photography under Philippe Halsman at The New School for Social Research in Manhattan.
1980s
In the 1980s Sunny Bak developed a style using Polapan film photographing New York City’s downtown diva scene, including Michael Musto, Nile Rodgers, Dominique and Madonna, which got her noticed by Annie Flanders, editor in chief and founder of Details magazine. Sunny Bak worked extensively throughout the mid eighties for Details as an advertising and fashion photographer.[citation needed] Her music clients included the Village People, Jellybean Benitez, and Fiona.
In 1984, Bak’s intern from City As School, David Skilken introduced her to his former band mates from the punk rock band, The Young and the Useless who had past changed their style and their publicize to the Beastie Boys. The Beastie Boys became a semi steadfast fixture at her studio where Bak often photographed their candid moments. Her studio became the location for their infamous “Fight For Your Right To Party” video and she shot them numerous times upon the Licensed to Ill Tour. Her images of the Beastie Boys can be seen on the albums Licensed to Ill, Solid Gold Hits, Def Jam 25, and “Def Jam Recordings: the First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label” (Rizzoli 2011).
1990s
She lived in London in 1991 and worked as a fashion and music photographer. During this become old she shot 10,000 Maniacs, Def American, Danzig, Slayer, Philippe Saisse and Engelbert Humperdinck.
In 1992, Sunny Bak moved to Los Angeles. Currently she shoots celebrity portraiture and produces film and television.
Last update 2021-08-06