New burlesque / Katharina Bosse ; essay by Cécile Camart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bosse, Katharina, 1968-

Contributor:

Camart, Cécile.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait photography--United States.

Portrait photography.

Burlesque (Theater).

Stripteasers.

Photography of women.

United States.

Photography of women--United States.

Stripteasers--United States--Portraits.

Burlesque (Theater)--United States--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Portraits.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

86 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : DAP, Distributed Art Publishers, [2004]

Summary:

Before it was a show business genre, burlesque was an attitude. It was parody, outrageousness, exaggeration, pastiche--even grotesquerie. If in 19th- and 20th-century America the term came to signify a variety show of light comedy, dance, and strip tease, eventually descending to a plateau of triviality, cheap sexuality, and predictable gaudy costumes, it has now--Woo Hoo Ladies --been resuscitated. (It's amazing what a feminist revolution can accomplish when pasties and sequins are introduced.) In New Burlesque, Katharina Bosse takes a trip across the United States to meet and document every proponent of the unabashed renaissance that she can get her camera lens around. Her colorful series of let-it-all-hang-out portraits of Babette la Fave, Kitten DeVille, Kitty Crimson, Ruby Darling, Dirty Martini, D'Milo, Starlet O'Hara, Scarlette Fever, Ursulina, and their many sisters give a wild, wicked stage to the very grown-up darlings of a new century. Whether pictured in a saloon or a kitchen, by the side of a country road or in front of a parking lot, these dames show it just how they please.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

189102499X

OCLC:

55588647