This 2004 book takes elements of Wojnarowicz’s years-long Rimbaud In New York project, including original images, and supplements it with additional material discovered in the Wojanorowicz Collection at NYU’s Fales Special Collections Library. For this limited edition, texts written by Tom Rauffenbart and Andrew Roth provide context and history of the book’s publication and contents.
This edition is out of print.
“Each photograph from the Rimbaud in New York series presents a lone figure, presumably Wojnarowicz himself, in and around New York City – 42nd Street, the Meat Market, Coney Island – wearing a mask portraying the visage of the young Romantic poet, Arthur Rimbaud. The Rimbaud portrait comes from the only known photograph of him made by the renown Nineteenth Century French portrait photographer Etienne Carjat.” – from the publisher.