The sudden death of New York artist Dash Snow in July 2009, just weeks before his 28th birthday, sent a profound shock through the contemporary art world. While tragic, his passing followed a life lived at an unrelenting intensity. From his late teens onward, Snow used photography - most notably Polaroids - to chronicle his days and nights of excess, capturing moments he often claimed he might not otherwise remember.
As these photographs began circulating in exhibitions in the early 2000s, Snow quickly rose to art-world prominence alongside peers such as Dan Colen and Ryan McGinley. Together, they helped define a raw, diaristic photographic language rooted in youth, freedom, recklessness, and self destruction - an era later remembered for its speed, volatility, and abandon.
Published in 2013, Dash Snow: I Love You, Stupid brings together Snow’s iconic Polaroids, many of which were previously available only in costly, limited editions. The book unfolds as a fragmented visual memoir: friends passed out on beds, couches, sidewalks, and floors; fleeting scenes of intimacy, drug use, boredom, and exhilaration; spontaneous adventures in cars, bathtubs, pools, subway cars, apartments, rooftops, and boardwalks.
Featuring 430 color reproductions, this monograph stands as the most comprehensive and accessible record of Snow’s work to date - an unfiltered document of a life lived at full volume.
Content Warning: This book contains explicit imagery, including sexual content and depictions of drug use. Viewer discretion is advised.
Condition: 4/5. Some signs of natural aging and slight discoloration on the very top of the cover (see first photo)
