""I knew nothing about photography. I ended up making 40,000 goddamn slides.""
""The '90s was a tremendous period of great magic, of great energy, imagination. And it's in the fabric of what we do today.""
""Taken together, they make up a scrapbook of the art world before it became a sprawling trade floor for blue-chip tangible assets.""
Jerry Saltz took thousands of photographs of the New York art scene in the 1990s using an Olympus Stylus. He developed 40,000 slides, which he recently unearthed for a project. These images represent a time when the art world was vibrant and uncommercialized, described as a 'village of pirates and dirty shamans.' Saltz reflects on the 1990s as a period filled with energy and imagination, influencing contemporary art practices.
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