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Foundation footing and form studs, west wall, from Construction. 1978–1979. All images courtesy of Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris.

I met Joseph Bartscherer in 1982 at a Richter show in SoHo. My girlfriend at the time, Vikky Alexander, knew Joseph and thought that I’d like him. Joseph was sporting a cane from a knee accident. We immediately started talking about Richter and then about photography. When Joseph moved to New York in 1993, I subdivided a floor with him and for seven years we worked next door to each other. It was wonderful to have Joseph as a studiomate and it’s something I deeply miss now that I live in California. On a humid September afternoon last year, we met up for a few hours in Joseph’s Hudson Street studio.

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Issue 103 Spring 2008