CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/5/2015

Peter Schlesinger: A Photographic Memory 1968-1989

"I first saw Peter’s pictures in his previous book of photographs, 2003’s Checkered Past," Hilton Als writes in A Photographic Memory 1968-1989, published by Damiani and featured in this weekend's T Magazine. "What impressed me there, first, was the color, the nuance of his pinks and blues; they were not too far off from the vibrant but almost-faded colors one saw in color field paintings, or a delicate, slightly worn color film. His prints also reminded me of the color that haunts memory—colors that are present but receding. Looking at those pictures I was a child again, haunting my sisters' rooms in my sometimes black and white world as they pulled their stockings on before dancing on and on into the night." Featured image is photographer Reto Guntli doing a backflip, Fire Island Pines, 1980.