Naked men, dozens of them, their sinewy bodies and tumescent unmentionables captured (and sometimes obscured) in natural and urban landscapes: these are the subjects of photographer Jeremy Kost’s latest monograph, Fractured, a collection of dreamlike multi-exposure Polaroids.
Born in 1977 in Texas, Kost moved to New York City in the early ‘00s and began chronicling downtown club culture, snapping Polaroid party pics of drag-queens, male models, celebrities, and other nightlife fixtures. Before long, his work was published in Purple, Wonderland, and Candy Magazine and exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum.
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One hundred copies of an artist's edition of the book are available. Once the collector has purchased the edition, they are given a password to a protected site where they can choose a particular Polaroid they want. The Polaroid is "embedded" in the slipcase cover and is removable. 100 artists' editions are available for sale and 130 Polaroids were made available to choose from (details here).
Kost, who has also incorporated collage and silkscreen into his work (Warhol is a major influence), began photographing Fractured in 2011 in an alley behind his apartment in Hell’s Kitchen.
The project’s title reflects the images themselves. “All of those feelings of desire, and lust, and longing, they never quite line up, they’re always a bit fractured,” he told Interview magazine. “You can see parts of it, and nothing is really one coherent story.” This is the stuff of fantasy, after all.
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