A love letter to a time before Instagram and the legendary party
scenes of the 2000s that brought together the new millennium's rising
stars of pop culture.
Under the moniker the Cobrasnake, the photographer Mark Hunter captured
the party scenes of Los Angeles and New York during the hipster-glam
heyday of the 2000s--and in doing so defined the look of a generation.
Armed with just a Polaroid and a primitive website, Cobrasnake captured
pioneers of youth culture from Kanye West and Steve Aoki to Jeremy
Scott, Katy Perry, and Virgil Abloh--icons of the indie pop world in the
making. Intimately connected with the people around him and keyed-in to
the edgier fringes of the fashion, music, and art worlds, Hunter
photographed influencers before they were influencers, in the wild and
at play from the streets of LA to NYC and beyond. Collected here for the
first time are more than three hundred of Cobrasnake's favorite images
alongside ephemera, from concert tickets and backstage passes to
outtakes and unseen photographs from his many adventures. These
photographs are records of the last generation of partiers to predate
the livestreaming of culture afforded by today's social media--capturing
the energy and vibrancy of a time before Instagram.
