"Be tough" is what he used to tell me all the time. He was known for his loud bark, but everyone who knew him discovered his big heart and great…
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I had noted the name Norman Eales on credit lines for over 20 years but never met him. His well-made fashion work appeared in countless magazines-Queen, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and the…
Peter Hujar is in many ways the prototypical lost photographer of the AIDS generation. Revered by critics, intellectuals, and photographers as diverse as Richard Avedon and Lynn Davis, his work…
There is no love, no affectedness, not even sensuality in the work of Daniel Boudinet. This secret young man, as handsome as he was sensitive, always kept feelings at a…
Jimmy was a quiet, elusive character who never signed his name the same way twice and claimed to have been born in 1949, 1950, and 1951. James, Jimmy, Jim De…
Photographers who cover the news are used to doing difficult stories filled with life-and-death struggles, pain and sorrow. But nothing has occurred in recent memory that has been as powerful…
The inestimable Tina Chow - five lines to sum up a living sculpture of porcelain perfection: delicacy and strength, courage and character, soigné, taste, humor, wisdom endurance, lissome grace and…
Antonio discovered me in Paris and taught me a great deal about posing and modeling. He introduced me to a lot of people. He was a very talented artist, and…
Robert Hayes was in the vanguard of the new glamour photography of the 1970s. In the social sphere of that time, there was a new meritocracy at work in which…
One very hot summer's day a long Time ago, I was walking up Third Avenue and coming towards me was a wonderful figure dressed in black and white. I remember…