Tom Slaughters paintings and prints werent his only body of work.
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He died there in 2014 of cancer at 59.
His daughters, of course.
After he divorced, his girlfriends.
Nearly everyone who came by, from intimate friends to UPS guys.
En masse, the pictures are an Instagram feed before Instagram.
Most went into boxes, but a lot of the visitors pictures got tacked to the wall.
Gradually they became a constellation view of the downtown scene and Slaughters life.
In quite a few cases, the former stand in for the latter.
So we put that in the book.
Shes eager for the buyers to get in touch: Oh, I have that one!
And then, she hopes, well ask to borrow it for a show.
Tom Slaughteris out now from the Artist Book Foundation.
