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i find myself most often drawn to candid photography mostly for it’s ability to capture something uniquely raw and of the moment is in true essence [in my opinion] what photography was meant for; to capture and record a moment in time. unfortunately, in this digital age we are mostly bombarded with the faux…posed+edited//chopped&cropped images that are so manipulated they generally do no appeal to my senses. i am also most fond of the nostalgia of the instant polaroid. its lack of luster & pretentiousness. the perfectly-sized white framed square. the gritty & grimy quality it offers. and of course the instant feature [for the impatient] which leads me to dash snow…
known best for capturing the NYC underground art culture with his valiant polaroids, controversial art installations & graffiti crew irak… dash snow in my opinion was a genius far ahead of his time and such a tragic loss. hailing from family of french aristocracy, dash took the low road and gave them the finger to pursue a life on the streets plagued with poverty & drug addiction. he started taking photos as a means of memory during times of inebriant blackouts. each snap shot documents a time, a place and seems to evoke a somewhat uncomfortable emotion. his photos served as a medium for him to glimpse into his life from the outside in the most voyeuristic sense. instances of illicit acts involving sex, violence, drugs and poverty were documented by him in a uniquely insightful and honest fashion. there was such a poetic beauty within the degenerate, futile and raunchy life he lead.
“the images now seem like stills from the film of his frantic life. the diary of a beautiful loser”.
Dash Snow: Fuck the Police. 2005
45 Framed press clippings, semen
“Adopting all the attitude of hip hop posturing, Dash Snow’s Fuck the Police presents a prized collection of newspaper headlines emblazoned with instances cop corruption. Each salacious story is splattered with cum and framed and mounted as a trophy. Wittily combining protest with hard-core bravado, Snow’s installation draws upon fictional connotations to conjure sociopathic images of gangsta persona. In his ballsy statement of counter-culture vehemence, Snow merges Warhol reference with Tarantino sensationalism in humorously pathological display” 
RIP dash: 7.27.81-7.13.09
