Purple Diary
[June 7 2010]
Outsider porn by David Hurles
On Friday, Marianne Boesky’s 24th St space opened a show of David Hurles black and white photographs curated by filmmaker and visual artist John Waters and Dian Hanson. The small scale photographs capture male sexuality in a direct way. Hurles started to take these pictures in 1968 by pulling the roughest men he could find on the streets from hustlers to murderers and placing them in these nondescript environments. Hurles’ style allows their bodies and psychology to take center stage. These images were later supplied to gay porn companies. Text and picture by Julia Balestin
Marianne Boesky Project Space Exhibition, 500 West 24th Street, from June 4 to June 25
