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Three players key to the founding of Drummer magazine. “Jack Fritscher, Jeanne
Barney, and Larry Townsend,” Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, January 10,
2007. Photograph by Mark Hemry. ©Mark Hemry

Front and back covers of Mapplethorpe:
Assault with a Deadly Camera, the erotic
biography of bicoastal lovers Robert Mapplethorpe and Jack Fritscher who gave Map-
plethorpe his first magazine cover, Drummer 24 (September 1978), and wrote the first
article on Mapplethorpe in the gay press for the “New York Art” special issue, Son of
Drummer. Front cover photograph of Mapplethorpe by George Dureau. ©George Dureau.
Back cover photograph of Fritscher and Mapplethorpe by Rink. ©Rink

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