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Presenting: Robin Roberts. America’s Most Beautiful Boy
AU$250 Read MoreAdd to cartEdgar Byrnes
New York: Marquis Publishers, [c. 1960].Digest photobook of Florida drag performer Robin Roberts, “The Miami Peach”, with two photo-sequences tracing a performative transition from boy to queen. Little is known of Roberts beyond these shoots, but the photographs were reprinted numerous times in the drag magazine ‘Female Mimics’, on one occasion under the name Windy Starr. Bob Davis, founder and director of the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive, notes that Lee Brewster (owner of Lee’s Mardi Gras Boutique in New York) described the Marquis digest as one of his best all-time sellers, and that “except for these photos, which appear to have all been shot in one session, virtually nothing is known about Robin Roberts” (‘Female Mimics Part 3: Pudgy’s Challenge’, TGForum). A single copy of this edition recorded in OCLC at Yale, with two further copies traced of the 34 page edition, which was published without an imprint and contains only the first sequence.
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Street Strollers of New York
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartCatherine Bell
Melbourne: Monash Gallery of Art, 2014.“Street strollers of New York is a sequence of photographs that document African-American nannies shuttling white children through the affluent mid-town streets of Manhattan. Catherine Bell’s interest in this subject grew out of her own experience working as a nanny in London; she embarked on this project with the notion to pay tribute to an under-acknowledged workforce. While there is a significant tradition in documentary photography of images of heroic workers, Bell’s images of African-American nannies belong to another tradition altogether – that of the clandestine street photograph. In these pictures, taken with a hidden camera and for the most part without the subject’s knowledge, Bell has cast each nanny in the role of a fugitive.” (exhibition statement, Sutton Gallery)