PAZ ERRÁZURIZ, LA MANZANA DE ADÁN (ADAM’S APPLE)
While working on the project “La manzana de Adán” (Adam’s Apple), Errázuriz received a Salomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed her to complete her work on a subject that the military authorities considered extremely subversive…
MATTHEW LEIFHEIT, TO DIE ALIVE, 2022
To Die Alive conjures a hedonistic fever dream of Fire Island’s historic gay communities. The book contains 77 photographs by New York artist Matthew Leifheit taken by night over the past five years…
MADONNA, SEX, 1992
Sex is a 1992 coffee table book written by American singer Madonna, with photography by Steven Meisel Studio and Fabien Baron. It was edited by Glenn O'Brien and published by Warner Books, Maverick and Callaway…
JESS T. DUGAN, LOOK AT ME LIKE YOU LOVE ME, 2015-2022
“In Look at me like you love me, Jess T. Dugan reflects on desire, intimacy, companionship, and the ways our identities are shaped by these experiences…
GARY SCHNEIDER, NUDES, 2001-2005
One of today’s most thought-provoking and original artists, South African-born photographer Gary Schneider is best known for Genetic Self-Portrait, which extends the self-portrait beyond the figure into the depths of the elemental nature of the individual...
KELLI CONNELL, PICTURES FOR CHARIS, 2024
Pictures for Charis is loosely based on the life of Charis Wilson and the time she spent with photographer Edward Weston from 1934 - 1945. Using Through Another Lens: My Life with Edward Weston (Wilson’s autobiography) and California and the West (with text written by Wilson and images by Weston) as a guide…
RICHARD BILLINGHAM, RAY’S A LAUGH, 1996
First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century, as well as a cornerstone work of the Young British Artists generation..
DAIDO MORIYAMA, JAPAN, A PHOTO THEATER, 1968
Originally published in 1968 – the year which also saw the launch of the influential Provoke magazine – the book already demonstrates Moriyama’s trademark visual style. On invitation of Japanese writer Shuji Terayama, Moriyama began photographing members of a traveling theater group, adding shots of dwarf show dancers, strip clubs, street performers, fetuses in formaldehyde containers and other motifs…
JUSTINE KURLAND, GIRL PICTURES
The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets…
KEISHA SCARVILLE, LICK OF TONGUE, RUB OF FINGER, ON SOFT WOUND
Keisha Scarville has spent much of her life tracing routes of movement between the Caribbean and America in order to investigate her own lineage...
RINEKE DIJKSTRA, BEACH PORTRAITS, 2002
Tall, skinny, short, round, squat, awkward, slouched, tanned, bashful, and sometimes unknowingly beautiful, the adolescents in Rineke Dijkstra's Beach Portraits stand alone, the ocean rolling behind them…
SALLY MANN, AT TWELVE, PORTRAITS OF YOUNG WOMEN, 1988
At Twelve is Sally Mann’s revealing, collective portrait of twelve-year-old girls on the verge of adulthood. To be young and female in America is a time of tremendous excitement and social possibilities; it is a trying time as well, caught between childhood and adulthood, when the difference is not entirely understood…
ALVIN BALTROP, THE PIERS
Powerful, lyrical and controversial, Alvin Baltrop's photographs are a groundbreaking exploration of clandestine gay culture in New York in the 1970s and 80s…
DEANA LAWSON, AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH, 2018
This is the first monograph on the photography of Deana Lawson, who has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals…
PINAR YOLAÇAN, MOTHER GODDESS
Mother Goddess, published by Baron, showcases the work of artist Pinar Yolaçan and serves as an artefact of her visual explorations of the body, along the themes of gender and otherness…
KRISTINE POTTER, MANIFEST
Created while working in remote areas along the Western slope of Colorado between 2012 and 2015, Kristine Potter builds on her previous investigations of masculinity and the American Soldier, here fixing her gaze on a parallel archetype, the American Cowboy…
MARIETTE PATHY ALLEN, TRANSFORMATIONS: CROSSDRESSERS AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM, 1978-89
This series actually started in New Orleans on the last day of Mardi Gras, 1978, when by fluke, I stayed at the same hotel as a group of crossdressers, one of whom became a friend…
RYUDAI TAKANO, SELECTED WORKS
Takano Ryudai is widely recognized as a photographer who deals with the themes of gender and sexuality…
TOM BIANCHI, FIRE ISLAND PINES POLAROIDS, 1975 - 1983
Growing up in the 1950s, Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago and pick up 25-cent “physique” magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine, he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Island…
VIVIENNE MARICEVIC, SHE SHOOTS MEN
Vivienne Maricevic's desire to reveal, challenge, and transform the imbalance between the frequent representation of the naked female form and the rarity of male nudity is led to more than three decades spent devoted to the unadorned male form…