Article: The renegades: ambitious, unafraid and often subvervive, a new pack of New York artists is doing things their own way--and attracting no small amount of attention in the process. Bruce Weber captures this wild bunch and their friends on the beaches of Miami during Art Basel and in the streets of Chinatown, a neighborhood that many of them call home.(Profile)

Dash Snow

As a teenager growing up in New York's East Village, Snow (below) documented his evenings out with a Polaroid camera. He snapped his friends watching porn, posing in the nude and having their way with public property--all with the intention, he says, of being able to remember the previous night's antics the following day. His visual diary-keeping sparked a love of the medium and a nascent career. His first solo show, "Moments Like This Never Last," at the Rivington Arms Gallery last year, featured enlarged digital prints of his Polaroids as well as sculptures made from found objects. The 24-year-old's work was also included in Deitch Projects' roundup ...

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