![]() ![]() He used available light, gentle ochers and greens, the faint shade of blue when sky is indistinguishable from water. He photographed Cady Noland at the beach. He photographed Kenny Scharf and Patti Astor at Fun, Astor's East Village gallery. He photographed Nan Goldin at her loft on the Bowery. Frame met the artist Darrel Ellis at the Bar and photographed him at his Perry Street apartment. Some of the patrons then are legends now: Peter Huiar, Alvin Baltrop, Robert Gober. They all went to the Bar on Second Avenue and Fourth Street, a local dive with a pool table, and yet even people in Europe knew about it. He met other gay men who were artists and writers, and each brought references and experiences and ambition to the scene. Frame had time for friendship, for art and sex. He cleaned apartments for enough cash to get by, and he didn't need much because rent was cheap. After living in a gay rooming house in Brooklyn, he found a place downtown on Perry Street in the West Village. Allen Frame had grown up in Mississippi and lived in Boston, and, in 1977, when his friends were moving to New York, he moved there too. There was a difference between uptown and downtown then. ![]() A health crisis looms, like an overture in a minor key, but everyone goes to a bar called the Bar and a gallery called Fun. A young man comes to New York and wants to be an artist. ![]()
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