Nicholas Taylor

Jean-Michel Basquiat 1979 photograph (Basquiat by Nick Taylor Gray)

1979

Signed Daido Moriyama photograph: Yokosuka, A Japanese Town 1971/2020: A signature Daido Moriyama grainy, black & white, high contrast depiction of an anonymous girl in a white dress running up a debris-filled alleyway. Silver Gelatin Print; 8x10 inches including borders. Hand signed & numbered by Moriyama on the verso from a sold out limited edition of 150. Excellent overall condition. Provenance: Aperture New York. Printed 2020. Literature: Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999, p.28. Daido Moriyama, London: Tate Modern, 2012, pp. 66, 76. Daido Moriyama has a self-proclaimed obsession with cities. In his mod 70s now, his work still shares the same inclination to record his surroundings as his earliest pictures, taken during the dramatic transformation of 1960s post-war Japan. Moriyama used his camera to document the American military...

Jello Biafra, New York, 1986 by celebrated downtown photographer Fernando Natalici. Jello Biafra – Dead Kennedy’s – Leader of the semianl early...

Al Goldstein by heralded New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici Silver Gelatin Print, c.1979. 11x14 inches. Hand signed & dated on the verso from an edition of 2. Some minor residue or fading to edges and minor signs of handling; otherwise in very good condition for its age. Al Goldstein: If Hugh Hefner strove to put a sleek, air-brushed image on sexual freedom in the 1960s, rival publisher Al Goldstein was the polar opposite. Unabashedly abrasive and foul-mouthed, the cigar-chomping, a larger than life Goldstein called his explicit magazine Screw. When he co-founded Screw in 1968, the American legal system was embroiled in a battle over what constitutes obscenity. Goldstein never envisioned himself as a champion of free speech, but fought for what he said were his own prurient interests. The porn magazine's scathing, scatological editorials railed against religious leaders and the government for justifying war while imprisoning erotic magazine...

Eric Mitchell on the set of the seminal 70's Manhattan art scene film, "The Foreigner," by celebrated downtown photographer, Fernando Natalici. Silver ...

Photograph of Jean Michel Basquiat, New York, 1979: This rare Basquiat photograph was taken from Nicholas Taylor’s well-documented portfolio exploring his friendship with Jean-Michel Basquiat - a friendship which began when both collaborated on the historic New York No Wave band, “GRAY” in the late 1970s; before the two briefly lived together in the East Village. Selections from Taylor's portfolio were most notably exhibited as part of the Basquiat retrospective at London's Barbican in 2017 and have been featured in numerous noteworthy publications on Basquiat. Gelatin Silver Print. 1979. 11 x 14 inches. Edition of 4 A/P's. Signed, dated and numbered 1/4 in pencil on the recto. Some minor surface waves; otherwise very good overall vintage condition. Provenance: Obtained directly from artist. Lot 180 is an authorized dealer rep of Nick Taylor...

The Ramones captured by heralded New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici, backstage at The Ritz, New York, NY circa 1985. Silver gelatin print. Dimensions: 11 x 14 inch...

"Between 1982 and 1987 Andy Warhol produced several hundred works each comprising several identical photographs stitched together with thread. At the edges of the work excess thread ...

"Between 1982 and 1987 Andy Warhol produced several hundred works each comprising several identical photographs stitched together with thread. At the edges of the work excess thread ...

"Between 1982 and 1987 Andy Warhol produced several hundred works each comprising several identical photographs stitched together with thread. At the edges of the work excess thread ...

"Between 1982 and 1987 Andy Warhol produced several hundred works each comprising several identical photographs stitched together with thread. At the edges of the work excess thread ...

"Between 1982 and 1987 Andy Warhol produced several hundred works each comprising several identical photographs stitched together with thread. At the edges of the work excess thread ...

"Between 1982 and 1987 Andy Warhol produced several hundred works each comprising several identical photographs stitched together with thread. At the edges of the work excess thread ...