Jack Pierson: the Hungry Years

Jack Pierson: the Hungry Years

Jack Pierson • Damiani

ISBN-10: 8862085621 · ISBN-13: 978‑8862085625 · 2018

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The Hungry Years' collects Jack Pierson’s 1980s’ photographs, which have increasingly captured the attention of the art world since they were first published as a collection in 1990. Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson’s work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of seduction and glamour. Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson’s work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian.

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