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Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988 - 2003

Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988 - 2003

Phyllis Christopher

Phyllis Christopher’s fearless and tender photographs fuse lesbian sex and queer protest against the backdrop of a city in flux. Relocating to San Francisco from her hometown Buffalo in the late-1980s, Christopher began to collaborate with her subjects to make images in which documentary and performance converge. Dark Room brings together fifteen years of Christopher’s work, negotiating street, club, and studio, with camera in hand, to compose a portrait of a community simultaneously defining radical articulations of queer lesbian sexuality and defending its bodily autonomy in the face of right-wing politics, the AIDS crisis and urban gentrification.

Reproducing photographs of startling intensity and sensuality alongside new writing by Susie Bright, Laura Guy, Michelle Tea and an interview with Shar Rednour, Dark Room is a heartfelt record of Christopher’s devotion to an analogue tradition, to the pleasures of photographs and the community that made them.

Shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture First PhotoBook Award.

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Type: Paperback

Year: 2022

Pages: 176 pages

ISBN: 9781912570072

Publisher: Book Works

Size: 280mm x 224mm

Phyllis Christopher

Phyllis Christopher is an American photojournalist living and working in Newcastle.
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