Joe Dallesandro Superstar
Joe Dallesandro und Jane Forth Joe Dallesandro, the Little Joe "who never once gave it away" in Lou Reed's Take a Walk on the Wild Side and superstar of Andy Warhol's factory, is the subject of a photo exhibition at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg: Aktuelle Kunst Haus der Photographie gallery beginning April 1 and running through May 22. Curated by Ingo Taubhorn, Joe Dallesandro Superstar will feature Joe's varied roles in masculine portraiture by such photographers as Duncan, Skrebneski, Avedon, Scavullo, Michals, Childers, and Bokelberg. Vintage film posters and stills from Joe's work in the 1960s and 1970s will also be featured. For more on the Joe show, part of a larger exhibition devoted to Traummaenner (dream men), in which fifty famous contemporary photographers display their "vision of the ideal."www.deichtorhallen.de