David Wojnarowicz - Arthur Rimbaud in New York (1978-1979)

From the Reina Sofiasite:

'Arthur Rimbaud in New York', one of David Wojnarowicz’s few incursions into photography, is the articulation of a testimony to urban, social and political change in New York.

Wojnarowicz, using the figure of the accursed poet as the only way for an artist to intervene in reality, chronicles his own life and his emotional relationship with New York City in the late 1970s. The artist portrays himself wearing a mask of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, thereb...