Rimbaud in New York 1978-1979

David Wojnarowicz
Rimbaud in New York 1978-1979

Photographs: David Wojnarowicz

Text: Jim Lewis

Publisher: PPP Editions

108 pages

Year: 2004

Comments: Softcover. First edition, 2004. Black & white photographs, edited by Andrew Roth, text in english. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Some wear on the cover but copy in very good condition.

In 1978 David Wojnarowicz took a series of photographs of a man wearing a paper mask bearing the face of Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet. Wojnarowicz was 24 when he shot most of the Rimbaud in New York series, and the urban situations in which he poses the masked figure represent a specific moment in history: post-Stonewall but pre-AIDS, a land of sex, drugs, art, love, and wondrous bohemian existence. When a few pictures from the series were published in the Soho Weekly News in 1980, they were the first of his works to make it into print. This volume reproduces for the first time, the series in its entirety.