LaQuann Dawson Discs Erotic Self-Portras and New Black, Gay Art Anthology
Contents:
- INTERVIEW WH SELF PORTRA AND 365 PHOTOGRAPHER – ANNA GAY
- EXPRS YOURSELF: A MAJOR NEW SHOWSE OF GAY PORTRAURE
- GAY AMERI: THIRTY YEARS OF SELF-PORTRAS BY JOHN ARSENLT
INTERVIEW WH SELF PORTRA AND 365 PHOTOGRAPHER – ANNA GAY
* gay self portrait *
The imag are often ma rponse to and nversatn wh historil artworks and referenc such as the vanas motif, relig patgs, and inic gay artists who shaped my unrstandg of queer self-reprentatn, like Pedro Lemebel, David Wojnarowicz, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Fortunately, alternative events to the official gay Pri are now available: ralli, march, and parti that rever the urgency, ant, and cril spir that our social polics need and serve. Vcent Keh of MASCULAR Stud and Oliver Zke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the lnch of A Portra Isolatn, a project explorg emotnal and physil space the end of March 2020, as the COVID-19 global panmic grew spe and impact, gay men around the world were asked to subm self portras that reflected their experience of the ronavis lock-down.
The ia behd the llectn was to show that gay men are affected by the crisis a siar way to everyone else but more so. Livg liv which are often agmented between nventnal work ndns and their private liv leav many gay men whout the tradnal support mechanisms of heterosexuals and this shows through the separated by geography, culture and age, the men the imag all share fears for the future, lonels, job secury, and separatn.
EXPRS YOURSELF: A MAJOR NEW SHOWSE OF GAY PORTRAURE
I first me across the photography of Anna Gay on her Flickr Acunt when dog some rearch for a post on self portra. * gay self portrait *
MASCULAR is a London-based stud tablished by Vcent Keh that explor elements of gay and male inty through photography. Chartg his personal volvement New York’s gay scene, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs monstrated a pellg perspective on the unrground queer culture of the 1970s and 1980s.
Four s ago, the photographer Tom Bianchi began pturg the nearly 10, 000 gay men who every summer flocked to their En a specific part of New York’s Fire Island. Matthew Morroc“This photograph serv as the ver of my photo book, Complic, which tells the story of relatnships wh olr gay men New York om 2010 to 2015. Photograph by Ey Manng“The first gay pri was a rt—not a logo, psule llectn, or rabow Shake Shack l.
GAY AMERI: THIRTY YEARS OF SELF-PORTRAS BY JOHN ARSENLT
For the first time a major mm exhibn foc on gay and lbian portraure. The Natnal Portra Gallery's expensive, expansive new show exam how morn art was fluenced by GLBT paters, photographers and prtmakers. * gay self portrait *
Photograph by Chris Smh“I remember that some of my earlit self-portras, taken while I was high school and still eply closeted, seemed like the only way that I uld privately exprs and see myself as the gay man that I knew I was. When Impulse Group NYC approached me wh the ia of a ffee table book, my md immediately went to Joseph Beam's In the Life and Essex Hemphill's Brother to Brother - two anthologi curated by and filled wh work by Black gay men all wh different perspectiv and life experienc.