One very hot summer's day a long Time ago, I was walking up Third Avenue and coming towards me was a wonderful figure dressed in black and white. I remember thinking, before I realized who it was, that here was someone with super style - someone who knew how to look good in that terrible humidity and heat. ...

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Robert Hayes was in the vanguard of the new glamour photography of the 1970s. In the social sphere of that time, there was a new meritocracy at work in which uptown flirted with downtown at Studio 54, where sports figures mixed with debutantes, who in turn mixed with business tycoons and...

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Antonio discovered me in Paris and taught me a great deal about posing and modeling. He introduced me to a lot of people. He was a very talented artist, and we miss him. Fashion designer Norma Kamali once referred to Antonio Lopez as "the John Singer Sargent of our times." He redefined the craft of fash...

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The inestimable Tina Chow - five lines to sum up a living sculpture of porcelain perfection: delicacy and strength, courage and character, soigné, taste, humor, wisdom endurance, lissome grace and deep beauty ... a petunia in an onion patch .... And my lifelong frustration for never having ...

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Jimmy was a quiet, elusive character who never signed his name the same way twice and claimed to have been born in 1949, 1950, and 1951. James, Jimmy, Jim De Sana, De Sana intimidated many people with his dark, quiet presence. But once he was your friend he was loyal and loving, a chatty southern gentle...

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Peter Hujar is in many ways the prototypical lost photographer of the AIDS generation. Revered by critics, intellectuals, and photographers as diverse as Richard Avedon and Lynn Davis, his work influenced many but is known by few. For Hujar, New York was the perfect subject. Whereas most ...

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"Be tough" is what he used to tell me all the time. He was known for his loud bark, but everyone who knew him discovered his big heart and great eyes. He had an eye for grand indulgence in a photograph something that reached out to people and said, Just have a great time. When I first met him at GQ mag...

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John Kobal was a lover, a discoverer, and a savior. His boundless admiration of the silver screen made a young, shy boy the intimate chronicler of the stars. It was that flair which took him into the attics of has been actresses and the abandoned sound stages of Hollywood studios to uncove...

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With the loss of David Wojnarowicz, the world is a much lonelier place. His childhood and teenage years were some kind of nightmarish perversion of the American Dream, but out of great pain he created brilliant art and literature. The work he left behind, though, doesn't begin to re...

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Sam Wagstaff was the supreme aesthete of his generation. Singlehandedly, and with an unparalleled intensity, he transformed the collecting of photography in this country from an idiosyncratic indulgence into an intellectual pursuit worthy of widespread recognition. He was a natural arist...

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