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Phyllis Christopher: Dark Room: San Francisco Sex And Protest 1988-2003

Phyllis Christopher: Dark Room: San Francisco Sex And Protest 1988-2003
Library Shelf Location 18.CHRI
Publication Date 2022
Description

‘Dark Room’ is a rare collection of lesbian erotic and protest photographs taken by Phyllis Christopher during the period of her life spent living in San Francisco. This explosive and tender body of work connects struggles for lesbian visibility, sex positivity, and bodily autonomy to expressions of gender subversion and queer community. At the height of the AIDS crisis in the United States, amid mainstream censorship and misinformation about sex, Christopher captured a countercultural insistence on the politics of pleasure – a community fighting for sexual and artistic freedoms in both public and intimate settings. The book brings together fifteen years of Christopher’s work.

ISBN 9781912570072
Quantity 1
Pages 176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm
Editor Laura Guy
Format Paperback
Publisher Book Works
Related Artist Phyllis Christopher
Category Artists' Monographs A-Z
Keywords Explosive, Tender, Gender, Queer, Lesbian, AIDS, Censorship, Sex, America, freedom, Intimate, Misinformation, Counterculture, Politics, Visibility, Autonomy
Related Event Phyllis Christopher: Contacts (23 October 2021 – 20 March 2022)
Artist's Nationality American (USA)
Language English

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