Robert Longo: Men in the Cities

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The Men in the Cities series made Robert Longo famousin the 1980s: larger-than-life drawings of sharplydressed business people writhing in contortion, a sortof death dance of the modern man. Created between1977 and 1983, it is an early attempt in mergingsculpture, drawing, photography, and film.This book presents the photographic source materialto the series taken by the artist himself. Using friendssuch as Cindy Sherman, Brooke Alexander, GlennBranca, and Larry Gagosian as models, he'd bringthem up on the roof of his New York City loft, rig upropes to them and throw objects at them to makethem jerk, fling, and fall--and take their picture.With a foreword by internationally renowned artistCindy Sherman, a close friend of Longo's, and aninterview with Robert Longo, conducted in 1987 bythe author and screenwriter Richard Price.