I LOVE YOU STUPID

I Love You, Stupid compiles the famous Polaroid photographs of Dash Snow, one of the defining and most uncompromising visual voices to emerge from New York's downtown art scene in the early 2000s.

Published by D.A.P. on the occasion of Snow's 2012 exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin, this volume brings together over 430 color and black-and-white Polaroids produced throughout Snow's brief but incendiary career. Previously available only in expensive limited editions, this book makes Snow's visual diary accessible as a single, definitive monograph.

The photographs document the hedonism and intimacy of Snow's circle — friends crashed on beds, floors, and rooftops; scenes of sex, drugs, and chaos captured with unflinching immediacy across cars, subway platforms, hotel rooms, and apartments. The images carry the raw, diaristic energy of photographers like Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, filtered through Snow's own restless, self-destructive lens.

A great-grandson of Menil Collection founders Dominique and John de Menil and grandson of Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, Snow rejected inherited privilege to become a founding member of the IRAK graffiti crew alongside Dan Colen and Ryan McGinley — and one of the most significant photographic chroniclers of his generation before his death in 2009.

A significant publication for collectors of contemporary photography, downtown New York visual culture, and Snow's enduring legacy.

Publisher: D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers)
Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Format: Softcover (card wraps)
Dimensions: 18.5 × 28 cm
Pages: 436 pages
Condition: Very Good. Light handling wear consistent with age; interior pages clean and well preserved; binding firm.