Amos Badertscher Images and Stories

Name: Amos Badertscher Images and Stories
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Across several decades, self-taught photographer Amos Badertscher (1936–2023) made thousands of photographs of a liminal queer world: young male sex workers (who mostly identified as straight), drag performers and trans pioneers, and Baltimore's inclusive, ribald nightlife. Taken between the 1960s and mid-2000s, these photographs constitute an... Read More

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Amos Badertscher Images and Stories

The long-awaited first career survey from photographer Amos Badertscher, who comprehensively documented a uniquely American queer underworld

Description

Taken between the 1960s and mid-2000s, these photographs constitute an unparalleled chronicle of a culture of the era particular to Badertscher's hometown of Baltimore, but universally identifiable, one which began to fade with the movement of LGBTQ+ rights and liberation.

Amos Badertscher Images and Stories is a profound reflection of a vibrant and complex community, offering insights into lives lived in the margins, yet brimming with humanity and resilience.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781580936477

Publisher: Monacelli Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 May 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Monacelli Press

Illustration: 300 Illustrations

Contributors:

Contributions by James Smalls
Edited by Beth Saunders
Contributions by Rafael Alvarez
Contributions by Theo Gordon
Edited by Jonathan D. Katz
Contributions by Joseph Plaster
Edited by Hunter O’Hanian

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 289.0mm

Weight: 1800g

Pages: 334

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Jonathan David Katz, is professor of History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, curator of The First Homosexuals at Wrightwood 659 Gallery in Chicago, and author of About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art (Monacelli, 2024).

Beth Saunders is curator and head of Special Collections at the University of Maryland and curator of Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher s Baltimore.

Hunter O Hanian is a curator and former executive director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives and director of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.

James Smalls is Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Homosexuality in Art.

Joseph Plaster is Curator in Public Humanities and Director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Rafael Alvarez is an author and screenwriter based in Baltimore and Los Angeles.

Theo Gordon is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York.