Davide Sorrenti ArgueSKE 1994-1997 1st Edition

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Davide Sorrenti - ArgueSKE 1994-1997:

1st edition. 11.25x12 inches.
Published by Idea 2019.
Excellent condition.
Stamped 1st edition on the … Read more Davide Sorrenti - ArgueSKE 1994-1997:

1st edition. 11.25x12 inches.
Published by Idea 2019.
Excellent condition.
Stamped 1st edition on the interior 1st page.

Davide Sorrenti, the New York 1990s photographer who died in 1997, at the age of 20, was, says his friend Lola Schnabel, “living in truth.” His mother, photographer Francesca Sorrenti, with London’s Idea Books, published Davide Sorrenti ArgueSKE 1994 – 1997, a retrospective of her son’s work.

Naturalistic, authentic, and compelling, the images of Frankie Rayder, Milla Jovovich, Carolyn Murphy, and his girlfriend Jaime King, whom he was shooting editorially for the likes of Interview and Detour magazines, reflect the ’90s New York Sorrenti was living in.

Sorrenti had his own demons to deal with. He had a hereditary blood condition, thalassemia, and used heroin in the last year or so of his life. His death due to kidney failure was co-opted into the narrative around heroin chic, and fashion’s troubling flirtation with vacant-eyed models in less than salubrious settings, images which often referenced documentarians like Larry Clark or Nan Goldin. See less