We like to think that Ten Towers is a bit like Studio 54 circa 1978. I mean, it certainly has all the glamour, a selection of sassy regulars and our intern Alex is prone to a Seventies get-up. Also, according to folklore, the motto on the door was “you’re ugly, you’re not coming in”. Which happens to be ours too. Anyway, Studio 54 and other disco-leaning clubs of the late Seventies are the subject of a new exhibition, Bill Bernstein: Disco, that opened last week at the Serena Morton Gallery in London, displaying the photographs of Bill Bernstein in all their glory for the very first time, celebrating launched in conjunction with the book Disco published by Reel Art Press. A nightclub regular, Bernstein, who also worked for The Village Voice, captured the golden era of disco in hundreds of black-and-white snaps, becoming its unofficial documenter – “without knowing it, I had chronicled a scene that is now a part of history,” he said to the Guardian earlier this year. So, in the words of Miss Kylie Minogue (she knows), take your body to the floor (gallery) – your disco, your disco, your disco needs you! We’re off to find a white horse. Anyone?
DISCO: The Bill Bernstein Photographs at Serena Morton Gallery, 343 Ladbroke Grove, London W10 6HA until 23rd January 2016
Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs RRP £40 / $60, published November 2015 by Reel Art Press.
All images © Bill Bernstein / Reel Art Press
