PARTING SHOT

An Englishman in New York (Quentin Crisp),
Thomas Moore, sepia matte print, 11” x 14”, 1999

Moore, a freelance photographer and director, and recent transplant from New York City to Dutchess County, has taken portraits of artists, performers, and celebrities for several NYC-based magazines. He has also directed numerous TV commercials, documentaries, music videos, and short films.

Moore took this portrait of Crisp a few months before Crisp’s death on November 21, 1999 in Manchester, England, and remembers Crisp saying: “We are nothing. Every morning you should say to yourself, preferably aloud: ‘I am nothing, I deserve nothing,’ and after that, everything else is just a bonus!”

For more information on Thomas Moore e-mail: thomasimages@hotmail.com or call 227-2125.

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