#gail thacker

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Mark Morrisroe (eyes closed at Pat Hearn's flat) 1981

ph. Gail Thacker @pataroid source: @nervous_endings

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Photo Gail Thacker

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𝗱𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 (2019)

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Gail Thacker, Mark Morrisroe in Bed, 1989

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Gail Thacker, Mark Morrisroe in Bed, 1989

Gail Thacker studied painting at the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts in the 1970’s before moving to the suburbs outside of New York City in 1982. She lived within the downtown art and theater scene and enlisted friends and collaborators as the subjects of her work. Her photography reflected both the vitality of the time and the looming specter of the AIDS crisis. Over time she began experimenting with the film, letting it degrade throughout the development process.

 In her own words:

“I made an accident of leaving my negatives too long and it expressed death to me, and loss and risk. Then when I printed them, they were beautiful. It was intense.”

“I work from the ground and I follow the light. I believe that there is something alive in everything. The Polaroids are living things. They decay, they change, and the people in it are holding onto life and celebrating it. They’re trying to make their mark”

She is currently the Artistic Director of the Gene Frakel Theater on Bond Street.

This Polaroid shows Mark Morrisroe, a performance artist and photographer in his own right, near the end of his life. Morrisroe gifted Thacker with a gigantic box of Polaroids to experiment with when his health started deteriorating. His work has been the subject of many exhibitions the most recent of which was in 2018.

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Gail Thacker, 'Mark Morrisroe', 1989

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Love and Energy Claire Barnier, par Gail Thacker

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Gail Thacker