Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan

Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan unearths a spectacular photographic archive from one of the most obsessively devoted fans of our time, Gary Lee Boas. Starting in 1966 at the age of fifteen, Boas would convince his mother to drive him from his home town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia and New York City, where he would wait outside theaters, parties and restaurants in hopes of photographing famous people. With his instamatic camera, he captured everyone from silver-screen goddesses and Broadway legends to forgotten local beauty queens, rock stars, politicians, porn stars and even the pope.    Alongside these candid, never-before-seen images, are Boas’s humorous, and sometimes shocking observations about his interactions with these stars.   The photographs and stories, of Starstruck, date from 1966 to 1980. They document a bygone era of glamour, fandom, and pre-paparazzi innocence.   Co-curated by Cheryl Dunn, Hedi El Kholti and Jodi Wille.   “Starstruck unexpectedly celeb