Over 14 issues between 1968 and 1971, the downtown broadsheet known as Newspaper recruited a stunning list of contributors to chronicle the times in pictures.
news involved no words, only pictures. Other than an all-caps logo, the only type was tiny and used for the occasional caption or credit; an early issue included the easily overlooked information that five dollars, addressed to Steve Lawrence at 188 Second Avenue, would get you five bi-monthly issues.Artwork by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, courtesy Primary Information
Lawrence, a handsome, lanky Texan, was just twenty-two and relatively new to New York when he became the publisher, designer, and driving force behind. Its signature feature was what he called “Environments”—salon-style arrangements of erotica, exotica, nature studies, news photos, found snapshots, and celebrity pix. But it wasor like Andy Warhol’s, it resembled a tall tabloid; spread open, it was just under two feet tall and nearly three feet wide—the scale of an art work.
Left image by Peter Hujar © Estate of Peter Hujar, right images unattributed, courtesy the Estate of Peter Hujar and Primary Information Left image by Peter Hujar © Estate of Peter Hujar, right image unattributed, courtesy the Estate of Peter Hujar and Primary Informationhad no formal masthead, Primary Information credits Hujar with an editorial role, if only because so many of the paper’s contributors came from his sprawling social circle: Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Lucas Samaras, Ray Johnson, Paul Thek, Peter Beard, Warhol. It’s a stunning list given thatwas in many ways always a tenuous venture.
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