'That's kind of what this book is about. It's about another time. It's another New York.'
“When the future is as precarious and surreal as it is nowadays, especially in America, people look to nostalgia for some sense of security, for something they can relate to,” he adds. We sat down to talk with Leatherdale about how he captured these cultural icons, that time he worked forMARK BURGER: When did you leave New York City?
MARCUS LEATHERDALE: I haven’t really left it. I just don’t live there permanently anymore. I still have a bank account there. I still have an address there. But I’m in and out about every three or four times a year. But I kind of do backdoor New York. Just keep my foot in the backdoor because it took a long time to, to get in [.] So I’m not about to leave it. Besides, 21st century New York is not my New York. It’s another world. Which is kind of what this book is about. It’s about another time.
It’s so surreal. It’s not that I was morbid and thought I would be dead or anything, but I just never thought of myself being 67. It was never part of the plan. [LEATHERDALE: I was about your age when I came to New York. There were not these larger-than-life figures at the time. They were just developing. I mean, you had Andy Warhol, but let’s just saywas what drew me to New York City. It was like a moth to the flame, so to speak.
I photographed him again at The Hidden Identity. That series was a dada series that was created by Steven Sabin for us for. It was an evening at the Underground, which ironically was the basement of the building that the Factory used to be in. Now it’s a Petco, I think.Debbie Harry, “Hidden Identities,” 1992.
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