substantial hair and jumble sale dresses: long before smartphones,the artist took selfies to perfect his style. He opens up his previously unseen albumI think all transvestites are a bit in esteem with the camera. Long before the age of the selfie we used to joke at gatherings that we should be sponsored by Kodak as there was so much photography going on. The pictures in the album that will be shown at the Photographers’ Gallery in London were taken between 1979 and 1984, around the time I was at art school in Portsmouth. They have the charm of something set up on a rickety tripod, and hoping but not knowing if I was in shot,and then printed very cheaply. The invention of the digital self-timer reversible viewfinder camera was a godsend to transvestites everywhere.
I had been dressing up for possibly seven years before these photographs were taken, but I didn't have a cameraContinue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk