Trust is the ultimate currency for a rock and roll photographer. Back in the day, Michael Grecco shot now-classic punk and punk-adjacent bands like Ramones, The Clash and Talking Heads when they first played shows in the Boston area. Before those bands were a big deal. They knew he wasn’t bandwagon-hopping or carpetbagging.

“Bands understand that you love them and you’re part of the scene here where they landed,” Grecco says during a recent videocall. “It was like family in a way.”

Friday, an exhibit of more than 100 of Grecco’s vintage photos, titled “Days of Punk,” opens at Alabama’s Huntsville Museum of Art . The images, which span black-and-white and color, are as iconoclastic as the artists they depict.

In addition to famous names like Billy Idol, Devo, Adam Ant, Joan Jett, David

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