Legendary - Inside the House Ballroom Scene

Informationen zum Autor Gerard H. Gaskin, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, earned a B.A. from Hunter College in 1994 and is now a freelance photographer based in the greater New York City area. His photos have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, Black Enterprise, OneWorld, Teen People, Caribbean Beat, and DownBeat. Among his other clients are the record companies Island, Sony, Def Jam, and Mercury. Gaskin's photographs have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad, and his work is held in the collections of such institutions as the Museum of the City of New York and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Klappentext Legendary features Gerard H. Gaskin's radiant color and black-and-white photographs of house balls, underground pageants where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African American and Latino, come together to see and be seen. Zusammenfassung Legendaryy features Gerard H. Gaskin's radiant color and black-and-white photographs of house balls, underground pageants where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African American and Latino, come together to see and be seen.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald H. Gaskin, Gerard H Gaskin, Gerard H. Gaskin
• Assisted by: Gerard H. Gaskin (Photographs)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2013
• EAN: 9780822355823
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5582-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography; Center for Documentary Studies; Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography; Center for Documentary Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV