Word: satyricon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tribal types were gathering at home. One of their favorite spots was the backstage world of rock, where Leibovitz started shooting for Rolling Stone in 1970. It was a place where parents imagined that the wickedness of paganism converged with the self-indulgence of childhood, as if the Satyricon were being played out in the aisles of Toys "R" Us. Judging from a few of Leibovitz's early pictures -- like one of rock drummer Keith Moon trysting with his groupies -- those parents had a point. Rock had become the gateway through which the mysterious Other -- dark, hedonistic, erotically charged -- would...