Dash Snow

Dashiell "Dash" Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist, based in New York.

Early life and education

Dashiell A. Snow was born in 1981, the son of Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He was also a great-grandson of the founders of the Menil Collection in Houston, Dominique de Menil and John de Menil, French aristocrats who were heirs to fortunes based in textiles and oil-drilling equipment (see Schlumberger). His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman while his maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Marie-Christophe de Menil. He had a brother named Maxwell and a sister named Caroline. As a child he was rebellious, and at 13 was sent to the Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia, a residential treatment center specializing in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder. He did not graduate from high school.

Career

Snow began taking photographs as a teenager, he said, as a record of places he might not remember the next day.