About Teri the Photographer

Teri Bloom began her photography career by snapping family photos with a Brownie camera, and became a total rocker after landing her first Beatles 45s in the early ‘60s.

Being too young to go to Woodstock or be a hippie, she enviously watched the 60s unfold from a suburban BW television.  She watched teenagers drive around town in convertibles listening to WABC’s Cousin Brucie blast the Beach Boys and went to sleep listening to WNEW’s nightbird Allison Steele broadcast the coolest that FM radio was playing.

Landing in the East Village in 1980 turned out to be the best place a young music photographer could be. Shooting concerts night after night for over twenty-five years, she worked by day as a commercial photographer in NY City. 

Most of Teri’s photographs in this collection have never before been seen and capture an exciting, influential and unique snapshot of music history.  While shooting, she loved being caught up in the audience’s excitement — sometimes being pushed around by slam dancers and other times trying to remain steady on the trampolining floor of the Ritz.

She’s profoundly grateful to have studied with Guggenheim recipient Larry Fink, photojournalist Ken Kobre and the dozens of photographers who passed through the Maine Photographic Summer Workshops including Magnum’s Eugene Richards. 

Henri Cartier Bresson’s essay “The Decisive Moment”, which analyzes the micro-seconds of peaking action leading up to the photographer's pressing of the shutter, has always guided her eye and instincts.

Clients have included ASCAP, Sony Music, Concord Jazz, NY Rocker, Trouser Press, Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spin, Musician Magazine, A&M Records, the NY Times, The Village Voice, Circus and Downbeat Magazine among others.  Her work is included in the 2026 Rock n’Roll Hall of Fame’s show “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go:  Punk at 50”.

She dedicates this collection of 1980's era music photos to the scores of musicians throughout history whose courage, drive, uniqueness, obsessive creativity and risks have profoundly enriched our lives. And whose work created the inspiration and possibilities that future generations will forever build upon.