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Langston Hughes is naked in front of me.
Rather, actor Ben Ellison, portraying Hughes in the 1988 film essay “Looking for Langston,” is laying nude in the film’s poster with Matthew Baidoo, who plays Hughes’ lover, James Baldwin. They are intertwined in a seemingly post-coital embrace...
Gupta’s photography captures this sense of dilatory movement by usually leaving one body part hanging in the air, in mid-action. A series of three stills taken in quick succession leaves a large naked torso hanging in the foreground while Hughes struts behind.
Gupta’s men are active and dynamic—putting them in stark contrast to the social system that stifled them. Julien’s film, which is playing on repeat alongside Gupta’s photographs, portrays them in a similar light, infusing subtle AIDS-crisis activism...
“He’s remembering Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, but also sort of projecting his contemporary stance on that,” says Cheek.