Dash Snow – subversive artist and hipster – dies at 27-years-old
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Jul 15, 2009 at 12:00 |
Dash Snow – New York artist, scenester and a true lover of the Polaroid – has died aged 27-years-old at the Lafayette House in New York of an apparent heroin overdose. Snow's grandmother confirmed his death, adding that Snow had been in rehabilitation earlier this year and had been clean until recently.
Snow was well known for his sometimes stark, shocking and candid style of photography; often a kind of low-brow documentary of acts of rebellion, hedonism, sex, drugs, violence, blood, flesh and fetish. But he was also a sculptor, graffiti and installation artist. A point is often made that Snow came from French aristocracy – a family known for their wealth, philanthropy and artistic endeavours – which made his own artworks often be seen as all the more subversive.
Snow is survived by his artist wife (Agathe) and daughter (Secret) from a previous partner.
Via artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. More at tinyvices.com.
Posted By: Katie Olsen
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