描述
“When I first met Basquiat, I did not know him personally. We had arranged to meet at his studio on Great Jones Street. Although he was already an art superstar at the time, he was nothing but friendly and welcoming, and behaved quite normally. We worked together really well, and I was able to capture a series of portraits showing him working in a natural and relaxed atmosphere.” These images of Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York were commissioned by a German art magazine in 1986.
[Andreas Sterzing]
Andreas Sterzing is an acclaimed German photographer who has worked on international magazine assignments and long-term personal projects. In the 1980s Andreas launched his career in New York with photos of Pier 34 and the artists taking part in the project, and with stories about the East Village art scene, in which he was an active participant. Since then his commissioned magazine work has been seen regularly in prestigious publications including Stern, Der Spiegel, Geo, Zeit Magazin, Marie-Claire, DU, King Kong and the New York Times Magazine.
Exhibitions in museums and galleries followed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, SeMA (Seoul Museum of Art), KW-Berlin (Kunst-Werke Berlin) Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Jeu de Paume in Paris and others. Andreas’s images are in private collections and have featured in books and numerous documentaries about the 1980s New York art scene. In 2020 his iconic portrait “David Wojnarowicz (Silence = Death)” (1989) was named as one of “The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War II” by the New York Times Magazine.
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