1981: Gary Schneider and John Erdman open their photo lab with encouragement from Peter Hujar. They proceed to print all of Peter and David’s photographs, exclusively and entirely on barter.
He didn’t want money to ever pass between us. He had… psychological reasons for it, whatever. And I didn’t mind, because I loved him so much and I loved the work, so we did just an exchange. It was always just an exchange...— Gary Schneider