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…
ELLIOTT JEROME BROWN JR, SELF-TITLED EXHIBITION, 2022
The exhibition presented a series of new portraits and abstract photographs as a reflection on materiality, memory, and intimacy…
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…
TEXAS ISAIAH, MY NAME IS MY NAME
My Name is My Name incorporates photography and a system of celebration (altar) to highlight the multi-dimensional relationship between ancestry, ceremonial rituals, elements within nature, dream etching, and protection…
CHI YIN SIM, THE SUITCASE IS A LITTLE BIT ROTTEN, 2023
“The suitcase is a little bit rotten” is a conceptual series of work using new and found imagery to speculate on the potentialities of transgenerational memory and inheritance, between the artist’s socialist grandfather – a political activist in British Malaya executed for his politics during the Cold War…
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…
CLAUDE CAHUN, SELECT WORKS
Her first recorded self-portraits are dated as early as 1912, when the artist was about 18. In the early 1920s, she would change her name to the gender neutral Claude Cahun, which would be the third and last time the artist changed her name…
BARBARA NITKE, RESURRECTION, 1991-1994
By the late eighties, the hardcore porn industry had left New York and moved out to California. People who were serious about their adult film careers moved with the business, but I loved New York too much to leave. I stayed behind and found other things to do…
AIDA MULUNEH, SELECTED WORKS
Looking to her background as a photojournalist, Muluneh uses this foundation of visual and symbolic language and blends it with the sentiments, intensity, and passion of poetry…
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…
AMBER BYRNE MAHONEY, FIRST HAIRCUT, 2023
The day we first cut his hair — I write “we" because it does feel something collaborative, doesn’t it? Something done together. There is the one with the hair, the one with scissors, the one saying: yes, please, go and cut his hair (and what right do I have?…
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…
PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA, SELECTED WORKS
Sepuya’s work highlights the constructed nature of the photographic document and the performative space of the photographic studio, embracing the medium’s potentials for fragmentation and connection…
HANNAH WILKE, S.O.S. STARIFICATION OBJECT SERIES, 1974
In 1974, Wilke began experimenting with performance art. One of her first forays into this genre was S.O.S. Starification Object Series…
NAN GOLDIN, THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY
These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the swan song for an era that reached its peak in the early 1980s…
ANNE NOGGLE, SELECTED SELF IMAGES
Noggles’s artwork presents to viewers new concepts of self-identity in portraiture. Her artwork explores human connection and challenges the intersecting constructs of gender, aging, and femininity…
RENEE COX, YO MAMA’S LAST SUPPER, 1996
Deeply concerned with the racial discrepancies in society, artist Renee Cox explores black identity through photography, collage, video, and other media, using the body to displace religious symbols from the white-centric paradigm…