![]() He died, of AIDS, in 1992, at just thirty-three years old, the same age his father had been when he was killed. Hartley’s famous adage casts the past as a foreign country Ellis was less a tourist than an expat. Working from prints of Thomas’s pictures, and later from a cache of negatives that his mother gave him, he used that recovered history both as a catchment for his nostalgic fantasies and as a sounding board for his present-day existence. A few weeks after his death, the academy called to inform him that he had fulfilled the requirements.) Born in 1958, Ellis made it his life’s work to explore the world in which his father had lived. (In a bitter irony, Thomas had been training to join the police force. But before Ellis was born Thomas was beaten to death by drunken plainclothes policemen on the streets of the family’s South Bronx neighborhood according to Ellis’s sister, an argument had ensued after Thomas asked that the cops move their double-parked car. His father, Thomas, was an amateur shutterbug who’d briefly run a professional portrait studio. Photograph by Darrel Ellis, Courtesy Visual AIDS.
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