While still a student in the Department of Photography & Imaging, alum Aaron Lee Fineman (TSOA '96) started taking black and white pictures of the people and culture he found in the underground rave parties in NYC, Baltimore, and Georgia. Now, he and fellow alum Rian Dundon (TSOA '03), editor at Timeline, have created an online gallery of images from the peak of 90's rave culture. From the article written by Dundon:
The acronym [P.L.U.R.] (short for ‘Peace, Love, Unity, Respect’) was a guiding philosophy for ravers at the time—a credo which reflected their shared ideals of musical and cultural camaraderie...
...in the pictures [Fineman] made in those pre-selfie years of image indifference, we can feel the intensity—and integrity—of an underground movement with its own unique identity.