Sunny Bak
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Sunny Bak is an American photographer born in Manhattan to Chinese-Indonesian and Korean parents. She is best known for the gatefold image of the Beastie Boys on the License To Ill album, and the infamous Lesbian cover she shot for Newsweek in June 1993 that still ranks among their top ten selling issues.
Photography Career
1970s
Sunny Bak began shooting pictures in 1972 at Woodside Junior High School in Queens New York for her school paper at the age of twelve. Her first subjects for the paper included The Supremes and the Broadway show casts of 1776 and Two Gentlemen of Verona. The school paper rejected her interview with Carly Simon on the grounds that Ms. Simon was an unknown at the time. But rather, than let this dismay her, Sunny turned it into an opportunity and sold the interview to Aktuil, an Indonesian rock magazine for $100—her first sale.
Sunny Bak opened her first studio in 1976 on Broadway and 18th Street in Manhattan while still attending City As School. At the same 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 Rogers, 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 magazine as an advertising and fashion photographer. Her music clients included, the Village People, Jellybean Benitez, and Fiona.
In 1984, Sunny’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 since changed their style and their name to the Beastie Boys. The Beastie Boys became a semi permanent fixture at her studio where Sunny 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 on the License To Ill Tour. Her images of the Beastie Boys can be seen on the albums, License To Ill, Solid Gold Hits and Def Jam 25 and an upcoming book, 25 Years of Def Jam that will be published by Rizzoli in 2011. Her last studio in New York was on 18th Street and Broadway across the street from her first studio.
1990s She lived in London in 1991 and worked as a fashion and music photographer. Her clients include 10,000 Maniacs, Def American, Danzig, Slayer, Philippe Saisse and Engelbert Humperdinck. In 1992, Sunny Bak moved to Los Angeles where she is shooting celebrity portraiture and producing television.
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