Midnight by Gottfried, Arlene - Photographs - 2003.

New York: powerHouse Books, 2003. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 132 pages; full-page color photographs; 7.75 x 11.25 inches. DJ protected by mylar cover. From the publisher: During the summer of 1984, Gottfried met Midnight, the man who was to become both a close confidant and the subject of her photography documenting the next two decades of his life. At first, Midnight was a handsome and charming companion who danced and performed at nightclubs. But as time passed, he began to behave in an increasingly bizarre fashion. Soon after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, what followed were years of auditory hallucinations, self-mutilation, and other extreme behavior. A visual journal of simple yet gripping portraits revealing the ravages - and redemption - of time, Midnight is shockingly intimate and profoundly touching. Gottfried's images reveal an individual wavering perilously between states of lucidity and madness, mutating between youthful abandon and age-affected disorientation and back again in a frighteningly few short years. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging.