Sunny Bak

Sunny Bak is an American photographer. She shot the gatefold image of the Beastie Boys on the Licensed to Ill album, and the infamous Lesbian cover for Newsweek in June 1993, which still ranks among their top ten selling issues.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Sunny Bak was born in Manhattan to Chinese-Indonesian and Korean parents.

Photography career

1970s

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Sunny Bak began shooting pictures in 1972 at Woodside Junior High School in Queens, New York for her school paper at the age of twelve. Her first subjects for the paper included The Supremes and the Broadway show casts of 1776 and Two Gentlemen of Verona. The school paper rejected her interview with Carly Simon on the grounds that Simon was an unknown at the time. Bak sold the interview to Aktuil, an Indonesian rock magazine, for $100—her first sale.

Sunny Bak opened her first studio in 1976 on Broadway and 18th Street in Manhattan while attending

In 1984, Bak's intern from City As School, David Skilken introduced her to his former bandmates from the punk rock band, The Young and the Useless who had since changed their style and their name to the Beastie Boys. The Beastie Boys became a semi permanent fixture at her studio where Bak often photographed their candid moments.^[1] Her studio became the location for their infamous "Fight For Your Right To Party" video and she shot them numerous times on the Licensed to Ill Tour. Her images of the Beastie Boys can be seen on the albums Licensed to Ill, Solid Gold Hits, Def Jam 25, and "Def Jam Recordings: the First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label" (Rizzoli 2011).

1990s

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She lived in London in 1991 and worked as a fashion and music photographer. During this time she shot