#walt cessna

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I will always reblog this photoshoot when it comes across my dashboard, it’s one of my favorites. But this time I have something to add:

(I took the liberty of making a new post otherwise this will just get buried in the tags.)

I recently learned this photoshoot was done by queer multi-hyphenate artist Walt Cessna.

Stop magazine was founded by Cessna in 1990. This was only the third issue.

Cessna also took these Polaroids (and I would assume the resulting studio shots? Maybe not, someone who knows more, enlighten me.) (update: the photographer of the official photos, as always, was Joseph Cultice)

For those of you who incessantly try to recreate Trent’s looks, apparently the famed March of the Pigs top was from The Gap (well, at least the black tshirt):

Those screen shots are from this old LiveJournal post, which also includes some other well-known photos attributed to Cessna.

According to what I read elsewhere, Trent was styled in the Stop magazine shoot by designer Stephen Sprouse, who later went on to make some collections for Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs shortly before his death.

There are some interesting articles about him, but this one calls him the great American designer “who never quite was.”

Also, I’ve seen them for slightly cheaper, but mint copies of Trent’s issue of Stop can sometimes be found online for several hundred dollars.

(Original Tumblr post that came across my dash here, with the full Stop spread in all its glory.)

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Walt Cessna

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Scooter LaForge

photo Walt Cessna

styled, wearing & made-up by Scooter LaForge

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ig: @theaidsmemorial @waltcessna

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R.I.P. @waltcessna

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Saddened to hear about the loss of Walt Cessna this morning. Walt was an extremely kind and prolific photographer/writer/artist/human I had the honor to briefly meet and work with six years ago for his Wolfpack show at Splatterpool in Brooklyn.

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