Mark Morrisroe
Mark Morrisroe (born January 10, 1959 in Malden , Massachusetts , † July 24, 1989 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) was an American photo artist. His photographs were groundbreaking in the development of the punk scene in Boston in the 1970s.
Life
By his own admission, Morrisroe's drug addict mother was a prostitute and his father was unknown. He later speculated that his father was the Boston serial killer Albert DeSalvo , since he was his mother's landlord. He left home when he was 13 and later worked as a hustler. A disgruntled customer shot him in the back in 1976, which stayed next to his spine for the rest of his life.
Morrisroe received a place at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he was bothered by his lifestyle (drug addiction, travesty and exhibitionism). Nevertheless, he graduated from school with honors.
From Boston, Morrisroe moved to Jersey City near New York City in 1985 and showed his first exhibitions. In 1986, Morrisroe tested positive for HIV and died in 1989 of complications from AIDS .
The estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) is in the Fotomuseum Winterthur .
Exhibitions
- 1997 Mark Morrisroe 1959 to 1989 . New Society for Fine Arts (NGBK), Berlin.
- 2010 Fotomuseum Winterthur , Winterthur
- 2011 Artists Space, New York
- 2012 Mark Morrisroe. , Villa Stuck , Munich
literature
- New Society for Fine Arts: Mark Morrisroe 1959 to 1989 , Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-926796-51-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Approaching a sensitive savage", Steffen Siegel, in taz from 3./4. March 2012
- ↑ Mark Morrisroe artbook, DAP catalog SPRING 2011 p. 177 (en)
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on November 23, 2014.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morrisroe, Mark |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malden , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1989 |
| Place of death | Jersey City , New Jersey |