Shelter In Place, New York. 1979.
“Under the West Side Highway, in an abandoned rail yard, as seen through the rough holes of a wrecked freight car, a pair of lovers supportively clings to each o
(...) ther. Each protectively and tenderly holds his partner, as though in a premonition of the coming AIDS crisis or resonating forward to our own times of the COVID pandemic. The photographer’s shadow is also present, as though the scene is a construction conjured out of his own imagination—a fabrication made manifest from his own inner fearful anxieties, projected on the willing models who act out their elaborately directed roles.
In a sense, all photography is a delicate balance between the personal interior emotions of the artist and his chosen subject matter. Whether done in a straight documentary style or a more elaborate ‘directorial’ mode, both flow from the intuitive workings of the active visual imagination of the creator.”
- Arthur Tress
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