CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/1/2017

'You are kind of what stops the action of the swirling world.' Eileen Myles on Jack Pierson

"Janet and Lynelle" (1990) is reproduced from Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years, Damiani’s new collection of Pierson’s sometimes erotic, sometimes funny, yearning or enigmatic early photographs. In her introduction, a work of art in its own right, Eileen Myles writes, “I love photography because it makes choices for you and the person or what you’re looking at makes some more and finally you are kind of what stops the action of the swirling world. I saw that, I ask that…”