DAVID YELLEN:
David Yellen was born in 1972 in Bayside, Queens. He graduated from SUNY Purchase, where he studied under John Cohen (There is No Eye, powerHouse Books, 2001) and Jed Devine. In 2000, Yellen traveled across America to relive a part of his past—a time of rebellion and innocence, a time when the women had big hair and rock stars stood on stage as if they were Greek gods. He traveled back to the glory days of the “Hair Bands.” Over the course of three months, he drove his red Nissan 300 ZX over 30,000 miles to capture the faces of heavy metal fans. Yellen exhibited works from “Too Fast for Love” in 2001 at the Visionaire gallery in New York City. Yellen’s photographs have appeared in publications like The New York Times Magazine, Time, Spin, Rolling Stone, XXL, ESPN, Dutch, Nylon, and V. He lives and works in New York City.

Too Fast for Love—the book

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