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| Larry Wolf, Roots and Rocks (2025) |
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| Larry Wolf, Reflections (2025) |
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| Larry Wolf, Reflections (2025) |
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| Larry Wolf, Reflections (2025) |
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
On A Walk Today
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
A Year in Zines - 2024
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| Larry Wolf, A Year in Zines 2024 (2025) |
I realized that most of these have not made it to my blog, so here's a very quick recap.
A Glimpse of History
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| Larry Wolf, March on Washington 1979 (2024) |
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| Larry Wolf, March on Washington 1979 (2024) |
After the 2024 election, I needed a reminder that I have lived in rough times. It's not new. So this zine of images from the 1979 March on Washington for LGBTQ Rights. Images from my archive. I was also there in 1987 and 1993.
Within The Canon
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| Larry Wolf, In Conversation 2024 (2025) |
For several months in 2024, Gallery 293 at the Art Institute was filled with works by queer artists who lived in New York in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. I learned of their cross-connections through my own research. These five zines, In Conversation, put me in dialogue with the artists: Greer Langton, David Wojnarowicz, Zoe Leonard, Martin Wong, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and others. There's a separate page about my explorations.
Enfants Terribles
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| Larry Wolf, Enfants Terribles 2024 (2025) |
Arthur Rimbaud and David Wojnarowicz shook things up in their time and for decades after. They lived almost exactly 100 years apart. Now together in a zine (and this earlier blog post).
A Summer Afternoon
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| Larry Wolf, Summer in Vermont 2024 (2025) |
More from the archive and also a risograph version. We were young once, and in our hearts, always.
Dual Lens
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| Larry Wolf, Dual Lens 2024 (2025) |
I've been exploring making images with a lens intended for 3D. I'm captivated by how the two lenses make a pair of overlapping images, the right and left sides similar and different. This is the first zine to hold those images. More are in the works (see also Dual Lens).
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Collage In My Lap
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| Larry Wolf, Collage in My Lap (2025) |
Shared Queer Space
From 2003 - 2014 the house I lived in at 144 Powers was the central gathering point for socializing and artmaking and it really was my muse. I began photographing friends in the kitchen and backyard. I then moved to photographing in my bedroom, where the sheets and pillows where my friends sat became a recurring landscape and an important foundation for the work. So bringing some of these images into the Alice Austen House definitely resonates with that history of domestic portraiture, friendship and intimacy in a home which becomes a shared, queer space. ...
The mid-2000s, when I began my first portrait projects, when I was enmeshed within the Queer Zine revival, the debut of BUTT Magazine and its countless spin-offs, and the emergence of online social networking sites Friendster, Myspace, Manhunt and Adam4Adam.
I was distributing my work through zines and online, and the digital dissemination of the work immediately left the realm of my control and authorship. My interest quickly shifted from straight portraiture to the ways in which queer portraiture was being used and recontextualized, how the same portrait could serve both as artwork in one context and as solicitation in another.
... in retrospect, it is interesting how I found stability through the discovery of a history of photographic portraiture's relationship to literature. In literature the author and the subject more easily slipped, swapped places, lingered in the space where the roles co-exist.
A Note on the Photograph
The photograph is of the objects in my lap while flying home from a weekend in New York as seen by my dual-lens camera.
The objects include the catalog for Paul Mpagi Sepuya's exhibition, 144 Powers, at the Alice Austin House, 2022.
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