Duke University Press, PO Box 90660, Durham, NC 27708-0660. 1v. various paging, part unpaged, illus. ISBN 0-8223-2334-6, 0-8223-2368-0pbk. $69.95, $29.95pbk.
Amos Badertscher, introduction by Tyle Curtain. 1999.
This is not a book about AIDS (although many of the subjects have since died of AIDS), it is not about sex (although sexually explicit photographs make up the majority of the portraits), and it is not a history of the gay area of Baltimore. It is a very powerful snapshot of what was, is now, and always will be as long as mankind lives on this earth. This is true documentary photography where the documents "in these cases are people as icons of their lived lives--moments, spots, gestures, looks, instances of the transient and ephemeral." This is not a book for everyone and not a book for every library. It is probably better suited as a personal book for those who enjoy documentary photography, in this case "queer photography." It is a highly recommended book for all academic libraries.
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