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Amos Badertscher Images and Stories

Author: Jonathan D. Katz, Beth Saunders, Hunter O’Hanian, James Smalls, Joseph Plaster, Rafael Alvarez and Theo Gordon  

Amos Badertscher Images and Stories
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The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld

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The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld

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Across several decades, self-taught photographer Amos Badertscher (1936 2023) made thousands of photographs of a liminal queer world: young male sex workers (who mostly identified as straight), drag performers and trans pioneers, and Baltimore s inclusive, ribald nightlife. Taken between the 1960s and mid-2000s, these photographs constitute an unparalleled chronicle of a culture of the era particular to Badertscher s hometown of Baltimore, but universally identifiable, one which began to fade with the movement of LGBTQ+ rights and liberation.

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About the Author

Jonathan David Katz, is professor of History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, curator of The First Homosexuals at Wrightwood 659 Gallery in Chicago, and author of About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art (Monacelli, 2024).

Beth Saunders is curator and head of Special Collections at the University of Maryland and curator of Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher s Baltimore.

Hunter O Hanian is a curator and former executive director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives and director of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.

James Smalls is Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Homosexuality in Art.

Joseph Plaster is Curator in Public Humanities and Director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Rafael Alvarez is an author and screenwriter based in Baltimore and Los Angeles.

Theo Gordon is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York.

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Publisher
Monacelli Press
Published
21st May 2025
Pages
334
ISBN
9781580936477

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