Jackson Davidow

More just than documents of neighborly attachment and empowerment.

Do you care? Do you care that we were here?

Toward the end of 1968, Arthur Tress started bringing along his Hasselblad camera on visits to the Ramble. Designed as a paragon of the picturesque in the mid-nineteenth century, the artificial woodland in the middle of New York’s Central Park had become overgrown and ...

Recapturing the disappeared queer nightlife of Boston.

Picturing the gay couple.

What can account for Darrel Ellis’s historiographic exclusion?

Before the publication of her photo book The Other Side in 1993, Nan Goldin asked her old friend Shellburne Thurber to return to the site of its namesake, the decadent drag bar in Boston that played slightly passé disco. Twenty years earlier, it had been their nightly hangout ...