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For nearly a decade, through his enigmatic and compellingPolaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of NewYork nights from within its hottest party spots. In 2002, while staying with friends in Chelsea, Kost borrowedthe camera of one of his hosts and took it to The Cock. Eversince that fateful night, year after year, Kost has been thesole photographer to capture a complete millennial portraitof New York's famed drag queens, go-go boys, transsexuals,and wild-partying celebrities. An exhilarating trip through underground New York, It's AlwaysDarkest Before Dawn puts you on the guest list for a worldof vivacious creativity, performance, costume, and evidence(if you needed it) that a certain kind of fabulous madnessain't dead yet, and was around way before Lady Gaga! Celebration, angst, drunken revelry, joy, exhaustion,vulnerability, honesty, and pomp and circumstance areall captured in the uncompromising immediacy of Kost'sPolaroids of personalities such as Amanda Lepore, SophiaLamar, and oddly enough even former President Bill Clinton,Pamela Andersen, Paris Hilton, and many more. It's Always Darkest Before Dawn is Kost's first monograph andcollects the best, most outstanding images of New York'sclub culture created in the new millennium.

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This first monograph from party photographer Jeremy Kost, master of the Polaroid collage captures New York's underground club scene with vibrantly skewed portraits of drag queens, go-go boys, trans divas and hard-partying personalities by cocktail-shaking spontaneity with meticulous composition, accentuating the careful performance aspect of nightlife culture. - Advocate <br> It's fashionable to say that truly thrilling New York City nightlife died off during the Giuliani era. But It's Always Darkest Before Dawn, a collection of Polaroids shot by photographer Jeremy Kost, proves you can still find places packed to bursting with overstimulated club kids, fabulous drag queens, and debauched celebs-if you know where to look. - Details <br> <br> Kost's shots are unstaged, honest and show a good time! - iD <br> <br> Jeremy Kost has .. .made a career of inviting us beyond the velvet ropes to the go-go boys, drag queens and delicious eye candy that light up the night. - Neww

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Jeremy Kost creates art with his tried and true Polaroidcameras, flying in the face of the rising tide of digitalimage making. Kost was recently featured in the ICPTriennial. His work has been the subject of solo showsin Paris and Washington, D.C. Kost has also exhibited atthe National Arts Club in New York City. Kost lives andworks in New York City. Eric C. Shiner is the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The AndyWarhol Museum in Pittsburgh and an adjunct professor in theHistory of Art and Architecture department at the Universityof Pittsburgh. Ladyfag was born Rayne Baron in Toronto, Canada. In 2006,she relocated to New York City assuming the name Ladyfag.

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