The face of Arthur Rimbaud worn in David Wojnarowicz’s photographs comes from an image taken by Étienne Carjat. In the image, Rimbaud is 17 years old, still a child. Captured like this – and used as material by Wojnarowicz – his youth becomes eternal and symbolic, a lens through which the outsider artist was also able to see himself. The Arthur Rimbaud in New York series, produced between 1978-79, afterhellip;

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