Dash Snow (1981–2009), a native of New York City, emerged as one of the most provocative and uncompromising voices in the American underground of the early 2000s. Born into the de Menil family, he rebelled against privilege, crafting his persona through graffiti — tagging as “SACE” with the IRAK crew — and later turned to Polaroid photography and raw collages as extensions of a life marked by excess, spontaneity, and rebellion.

His imagery — scenes of sex, drugs, violence, street life, and intimate moments with friends, his wife and his daughter — was captured on film or Polaroid as an immediate, unfiltered chronicle of personal and communal experience. Snow’s collages, often made from tabloids, included provocative gestures like splashing bodily fluids onto images of authority, or infusing glitter into violently symbolic, confrontational compositions. His works embraced contradiction: being romantic and tender, yet brutal and destructive, anti-establishment and self-mythologizing.

Snow’s…