DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: ARTHUR RIMBAUD IN NEW YORK

One of David Wojnarowicz's few incursions into photography is a testimony of urban, social, and political change in New York in the late 1970s.  In 1978 and 1979, David Wojnarowicz took a series of photographs of a man wearing a paper mask bearing the visage of Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet equally known for his fervid verse and dramatic life.  Rimbaud was the instantiation , and perhaps the inventory, of the idea of the young gay hustler of genius.  This volume features an introductory essay by Antonio Sergio Bessa contextualizing the series within a foundation of other works across literature, photography, and performance.  Also featuring an interview with photographer Allen Frame, who produced several performances of Wojnarowicz's monologues in the early 1980s in New York's Lower East Side, Berlin, and Brooklyn.

Hardcover

9" x 10.5"

208 pages