
Egg Strike On Orchard
- Publisher
- Dashwood Books
- Year
- 2021
- Specifications
- Softcover
48 pages
6 x 8.25 in
Edition of 500 copies
Design by Charlotte de Mezamat
On a mild fall night in 1991, four teenagers allowed a slightly older fellow traveler to tag along with a single roll of color slide film through Lower Manhattan, documenting the nascent revolutionary aspects of street style, passersby, fire hydrants, graffiti tags, and, eventually, an act of vandalism that gives the piece its title. Excavated three decades later, only twelve surviving slides remained, enough to convey the exploits of the group and the mixture of physical action and stimuli surging through the city that night. The project brings together contemporary drawings responding to these thirty-year-old pictures, a long-form essay evoking that vanished era, and the surviving photographs at its core -- an alternately vibrant and ruminative record of an instant in time before the unimaginable onslaught of popularization and ubiquity that followed.