Baltimore portraits / Amos Badertscher ; introduction by Tyler Curtain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badertscher, Amos.

Contributor:

Duke University. Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait photography--Maryland--Baltimore.

Portrait photography.

Gay people--Maryland--Baltimore--Portraits.

Gay people.

Cross-dressers--Maryland--Baltimore--Portraits.

Cross-dressers.

Prostitutes--Maryland--Baltimore--Portraits.

Prostitutes.

Portraits.

Baltimore (Md.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Baltimore (Md.).

Badertscher, Amos.

Maryland--Baltimore.

Physical Description:

xv, 11 pages of plates, 63 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded) : portraits ; 37 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press in association with Duke University Museum of Art, 1999.

Summary:

Baltimore Portraits is a unique presentation of photographs by Amos Badertscher. These portraits--many accompanied by poignantly revealing, hand-written narratives about their subjects--represent a sector of Baltimore that has gone largely unnoticed and rarely has been documented. In this volume, the assemblage of images of bar and street people--transvestites, strippers, drug addicts, drag queens, and hustlers--spans a twenty-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. Badertscher's arresting and melancholy photographs document a culture that has virtually disappeared due to substance abuse, AIDS, and, often, societal or familial neglect.

What makes Badertscher's work even more compelling is the resonance it has with other areas. These images are of a particular place, but Baltimore is one city out of thousands where these problems face us every day in growing numbers. Their archival quality, therefore, cannot be ignored. They are the kind of records one keeps of the dead, and, unfortunately, that is the fate that has befallen so many of the subjects.

Contents:

A Baltimore Essay: Photography, Sexuality, Community / Tyler Curtain 1

Baltimore Portraits / Amos Badertscher 13.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 11).

ISBN:

0822323346

0822323680

OCLC:

40397696