A World of Our Own David Armstrong
Dec 04, 2018
3 minutes
Jesse Dorris
In the turbulent Boston of the 1970s, a wild group of friends in the city’s art schools began looking at themselves and the people who populated their world. They began making images—characterized by a deceptive casualness—so that others could see what they saw. Among the photographers of the so-called Boston School—Nan Goldin with her vivid, lurid empathy; the Polaroid punk prophet Mark Morrisroe; wide-screen fabulist Philip-Lorca diCorcia; Gail Thacker, inspired by both positive and negative film; nightlife legend Tabboo!; Jack Pierson with his winking, just-shy-of-leering—
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