CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/16/2019

A special brand of fiction in 'New York: Club Kids'

"When I arrived in the city as a teenager, I pledged to myself that I was going to live a life that would be worthy of a great book or movie someday. I was following in the footsteps of a long line of prestigious creatives who had already made their mark. I knew that if I was going to do it, I had better do it well. I knew that the territories into which I was entering and the tools that I was using were dangerous and even life-threatening. I knew there would be casualties and that I could be one of them. I was lucky to find protective shelter within a group of tightly knit friends, each of whom was beautiful, intelligent, and vastly creative… It was divinely ordered, and we collectively rode the volcanic surge of energy until it landed us onto our own individual paths in life. Some of those paths remain in purgatory, and some ended in darkness and tragedy… I hope that this book will honor those unique personalities and their creativity, as well as the photographers who captured and shared in our experience. We used our lives and our identities to create a special brand of fiction, and it has now become a part of history." — Walt Cassidy, condensed from the Introduction to New York: Club Kids