Morrisroe Mike (3 results)

First edition. 8vo. 182 pp. Photography. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good copy. (93611).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus / Near Fine. Quarto, 10.25 in. x 7.75 in. Unpaginated. Mustard yellow cloth covers with red and black title and words to front and spine. Red ballpoint pen mark to bottom edge. Protected in mylar. From Visual Aids: "Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989) was an outlaw on every front-sexually, socially, and artistically. He was marked by his dramatic and violent adolescence as a teenage prostitute with a deep distrust and a fierce sense of his uniqueness. I met him in Art School in 1977; he left shit in my mailbox as a gesture of friendship. Limping wildly down the halls in his torn t-shirts, calling himself Mark Dirt, he was Boston's first punk. He developed into a photographer with a completely distinctive artistic vision and signature. Both his pictures of his lovers, close friends, and objects of desire, and his touching still-lifes of rooms, dead flowers, and dream images stand as timeless fragments of his life, resonating with sexual longing, loneliness, and loss." - Nan Goldin, 1993".…

Paperback. First edition, 2012, first printing. New paperback with exposed spine and French flaps in a New half-dust jacket, all as issued, in the publisher's shrink wrap. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The photographs of Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989) feature a revolving cast of characters--childhood friends, "Boston school" allies, flatmates, lovers and hustlers--that freights them, in the wake of those early days of AIDS, with a tremendous poignancy, edge and melancholy. Struck by these qualities, the Morrisroe scholar and curator Teresa Philo Gruber decided to track down and interview the photographer's friends, acquaintances and lovers, and to make this book--a portrait of Morrisroe through his milieu, or "family." The book characterizes Morrisroe as the photographer-director of his time and place. It includes interviews with Mike and Doug Starn, Jack Pierson, Pia Howard, Jane Hudson, Kathe Izzo, Laurie Olinder, John Stefanelli, Stephen Tashijan, Gail Thacker, and others. Morrisroe's portraits of these subjects are included alongside contemporary portraits by Gruber. Photographs by Mark Morrisroe; interviews and photographs by Teresa Philo Gruber; introduction by Elisabeth Lebovici. 144 pages; color and b&w photos throughout; 8.75 x 12.75 inches. Biographies.…