Matthew Leifheit

To Die Alive

Jeremy O. Harris, Jack Parlett, Elisabeth Biondi

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Damiani
23 June 2022

Individual photographers

To Die Alive conjures a hedonistic fever dream of Fire Island's historic gay communities. The book contains 77 photographs by New York artist Matthew Leifheit taken by night over the past five years. The pictures show a world of desire layered in history, including the Ice Palace bar's infamous underwear party, the men-only Belvedere Guesthouse, clandestine encounters in the Meat Rack, and landscapes in all seasons of the island's delicate maritime forest. The wide-ranging subjects of Leifheit's portraits are the intergenerational community who come to the island for refuge or employment, ranging from sugar daddies to bartenders and sex workers. The series takes the form of a tragedy, combining many nights and many histories to form an endless night of sex, death, and evolution towards new definitions of queerness. As homosexuality gains mainstream acceptance, many queer Americans no longer need to go to geographic extremes like Fire Island, Provincetown, Palm Springs or Key West to express themselves. But what is the cost of assimilation? To Die Alive is both romantic and grotesque, challenging the sun-bleached history of homoerotic representation on this fragile island, which itself is under constant threat of erosion into the sea.

Text by: Jeremy O. Harris, Jack Parlett
Edited by: Elisabeth Biondi
Imprint: Damiani
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 330mm,
Weight: 1.000kg
ISBN: 9788862087704
ISBN 10: 8862087705
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 23 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, writer, magazine editor and professor based in New York. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, he was formerly the photography director of VICE and is currently on faculty at Pratt Institute. Leifheit's photographic work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public collections. His photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, Time, and Artforum.

Reviews for Matthew Leifheit: To Die Alive

Matthew Leifheit's photos in To Die Alive give arresting visual life to Fire Island's layers of experience, to both its vitality and its morbidity, to the weight of its past and the immediacy of its present moment.--Jack Parlett New Yorker