Several years ago I started photographing friends, and friends of friends, wearing a pair of 1970s vintage blue sunglasses that had belonged to a performance artist friend who had died of AIDS.  I had been the custodian of these glasses for over a decade, yet their somewhat overt style had made me hesitant to don them for any sort of daily sartorial function.  I wanted to put them to use, though.  And they had such a glamor to them that fun (more…)