Question: Photography on female masculinity
Fox asks…
Can anyone recommend or link me to any photography (or books on) dealing with female masculinity, androgyny, trans* men, genderqueer folk etc?
Photos, photographers, exhibitions, blogs, articles, books — anything!
Also if anyone wants to let me in on how they use photography to frame/express/unsettle/whatever their gender identity, that’d also be great.
Any thing even remotely related would be much appreciated!
Please post your response in the comments below.
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Posted by Merritt on February 17th, 2012 at 08:00 am
Category: questions 11 comments »
February 17th, 2012 at 8:09 am |
Obvious one:
The Drag King Book by Judith “Jack” Halberstam and Del LaGrace Volcano (Photographer). It’s given me enormous inspiration. It may be a little difficult to track down, but it’s gorgeous.
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February 17th, 2012 at 9:36 am |
Have a look at Molly Landreth’s work on this site. its under the Photo Collections heading and may help your thinking!
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February 18th, 2012 at 4:07 am |
Try
http://www.queerbois.com for pretty pictures of boi fashion,
http://www.bklynboihood.com for similar and more,
‘Female Masculinity’ by Judith ‘Jack’ Halberstam for lots of insightful commentary and the odd gorgeous photo,
http://www.sugarbutch.net and mrsexsmith.tumblr.com for photography, blog posts and links that often deal with female masculinity and genderqueerness amongst a whole host of other things.
I’m keeping an eye on this so hopefully I will find some new places too!
xx
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February 18th, 2012 at 5:14 am |
Try anything and everything by Ivan E. Coyote — books, poems, short stories, youtube videos, etc.
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February 18th, 2012 at 3:39 pm |
also try http://www.xxboys.net/team.php this site features mostly trans men
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February 18th, 2012 at 6:35 pm |
http://kageki.hankyu.co.jp/index.shtml
The above is a link to the home page of the Takarazuka Kageki theater company in Japan. It’s famous for putting on productions with an all female cast playing both male and female roles. An interesting example of theatricalized female masculinity. The page is in Japanese, but has quite a few pictures.
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February 19th, 2012 at 2:39 pm |
Check out FashioningAdrogony on Tumblr.
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tigr replied:
February 19th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Do you mean fashioning-androgyny.tumblr.com ?
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March 8th, 2012 at 9:36 am |
Hey,
Not sure if you still need these, but photographers that have looked at the issue of gender identity include: Catherine Opie, Molly Landreth, Katie Koti, Sophia Wallace, Tina Fiveash, Collier Schorr, and that’s all I can think of right now!
Good luck! :)
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March 21st, 2012 at 4:15 am |
Thanks so much, guys! This has all been really helpful and very much appreciated.
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October 20th, 2012 at 7:08 pm |
Hey,
Not sure you are still looking at photographers who work on gender identity but I am one of those Chloe Meynier and you can find examples on my series Embrace Yourself, my friend Kristin Lyseggen is also working with transgenders and other names you can check out too are Christer Stromholm, Jess T Dugan, Julie Fogarty, Thibault Stipal, Asa Johannesson, Claude Cahen and Rebecca Swan.
Hope this will help!
Chloe
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