Four years ago Robert Mapplethorpe died - on March 9, 1989, to be exact. Robert was very exacting. You can sense that in his work, which has a precision that…
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Joe Macdonald and I met in the mid-1970s, a heady time for photography. He had just begun collecting seriously. He was a wonderfully good-looking man who achieved astonishing success as…
Ken was the only art director I ever worked with who could do backflips. At times of great stress he would backflip into the art room (he had been an…
GQ hired Barry to do many shoots during the time I was associate art director there. Barry was always a complete perfectionist and was usually very difficult to get along…
Sam Wagstaff was the supreme aesthete of his generation. Singlehandedly, and with an unparalleled intensity, he transformed the collecting of photography in this country from an idiosyncratic indulgence into an…
At the end of the l970s, when Hervé Guibert was just a young man discovering the public interest in photography, he already wanted to be a great writer. His very…
With the loss of David Wojnarowicz, the world is a much lonelier place. His childhood and teenage years were some kind of nightmarish perversion of the American Dream, but out…
Ray was a really great, kind man. I was a part of a little group that included photographers Jamie Morgan and Mark Lebon and singer Neneh Cherry, and we'd all…
John Kobal was a lover, a discoverer, and a savior. His boundless admiration of the silver screen made a young, shy boy the intimate chronicler of the stars. It was…
I was just a kid when Bill Connors first photographed me for a Glamour magazine cover in the late l960s. We developed a special personal relationship that lasted until his…