February 04, 2000 — February 26, 2000 75 Grand St, New York Co-curated by Cheryl Dunn, Hedi El Kholti and Jodi Wille. Interspersing photographs with the artist's ruminations, Gary Lee Boas’ exhibition at Deitch Projects, Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan was part of a widely acclaimed traveling exhibition concurrent with the publishing of his book of the same title by Dilettante Press. Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan unearthed the spectacular photographic archives of one of the most obsessively devoted fans of our time. Starting in 1966 at the age of fifteen, Gary 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 ha captured everyone from silver-screen goddesses and Broadway legends to forgotten local beauty queens, rock stars and politicians, porn stars and the pope. Along side these candid, never-before-seen images of Marlene Dietrich, Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Chambers, and many forgotten and cult personalities from the era are Boas’s own insider stories and humorous, sometimes shocking observations about his interactions with the stars. These photographs and stories, dating from 1966 to 1980, document with refreshing vitality a bygone era of glamour, fandom, and pre-paparazzi innocence. The vast range of personalities and scenarios, filtered through the lens of an unknown, devoted fan, moves this collection beyond other books with similar subjects into the realms of pop-culture commentary and “outsider” art photography.