Studio 54

In the late 1970s New York's Studio 54 night club was the place to be. Anybody who was anybody was there and for everybody else it was incredibly hard to get into for as co-owner Steve Rubell said 'The key to a good party is filling a room with guests more interesting than you.' Even now the name Studio 54 is a short hand debauchery. Photographer Tod Papageorge spent many nights between 1978 and 1980 shooting the denizens of the notorious nightspot now collected in the book Studio 54 in which the colourful excesses are captured in beautiful full page black and white