Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review
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Les amies de Place Blanche by Christer Strömholm – review
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Tom created vibrant, virile, and luminous portrayals of masculine archetypes like bikers and leathermen fearlessly flaunting their desire and sexuality.
Lorsque je lui demandais ce qui le poussait à prendre ce genre de clichés, il répondait qu’il fallait bien que quelqu’un le fasse, alors pourquoi pas lui. Il était dans une position privilégiée pour observer des actes sexuels extrêmes entre adultes consentants, et ses sujets lui faisaient confiance. Sa mission n’était pas de révéler, mais de rendre
... See moreHéloïse Esquié • Just Kids (GRAND PUBLIC) (French Edition)
Using a Leica camera with a telephoto lens on a tripod, Horvat took several thirty-second exposures so that the architecture and some people would be still, and the moving crowd would blur. By using this technique, Horvat appears to underscore the physical movement and the transient nature of the environment as well as the moments spent within it. ... See more
Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris
Along the way, he described how things used to be. “You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they’ve lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.”
Edmund White • The Stonewall Reader
So strange, so sad that Weegee, writing about Stieglitz, was predicting his own loneliness and decline into obscurity. But Weegee’s book does end on a bright note. Its final words are: “Be original and develop your own style, but don’t forget above anything and everything else…be human…think…feel. When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond bet
... See moreBill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
But Stonewall, Compton, and Dewey’s all have one thing in common: drag queens and street kids.
Edmund White • The Stonewall Reader
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