John Waters: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

JOHN WATERS

NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW YORK

In 1964, John Waters shot his first short film, Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, using shoplifted film stock and a Brownie 8 mm movie camera given to him by his grandmother for his seventeenth birthday. Thirty-three years later, while directing Edward Furlong and Christina Ricci in Pecker, he noticed that the tape marks his crew was using to position the actors on set looked a lot like abstract drawings, and decided to photograph and present them as art (Mark #1-Mark #15, 1998). Both Hag and the "Mark" series ...

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