Palermo Publishing, 2025, softcover, 128 pages, 14 x 16.5 cm
Portraits and Places by Steve Turtell offers six intimate, personal views of a time in New York that now, fifty years later, seems as distant as the lost Continent of Atlantis.
From the first Gay Pride March, to Frank Zappa’s thirtieth birthday party, to the fracture of a treasured friendship with the photographer Peter Hujar during a trip to Mardi Gras, these essays depict a life as varied as the scenes and characters encountered. The text is augmented with eleven Peter Hujar portraits of significant characters featured in the essays, including Charles Ludlam, Sheyla Baykal, and performers in the legendary Palm Casino Revue.
