Marcus Leatherdale, Who Photographed New York’s Downtown Art Scene, Dies at 69 

Marcus Leatherdale, the charismatic photographer who documented New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s, died at 69 on April 22 from suicide.

Hailing from Montreal, Marcus Leatherdale moved to San Francisco in the 1970s to study photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. He quickly gravitated toward portraiture, a practice he would master after moving to New York in spring 1978. New i...

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