Adults In Wonderland
Published on 1. June 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-85242-552-4 (ISBN)
Description
Since the early 1980s, Grace Lau's photographic journey through the world of sexuality, gender identity and sado-masochistic sub-culture has earned her the reputation as a photographer of perverse tastes. This retrospective details that journey, from her earliest male nudes, to her life as a voyeur at "Skin Two" functions and dominatrices' dungeons, and culminating in her work on cross-dressing and post-modern perversity. Lau's work has appeared on the covers of "Time Out" and "Paris Match" and in the National Portrait Gallery and Chelsea Arts Club.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Illustrations
75 b&w and 25 colour photographs
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 219 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-552-4 (9781852425524)
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Persons
Amanda Hopkinson has edited several books on photography, including Between Ourselves, with Mari Mahr and Adults in Wonderland with Grace Lau, both published by Serpent's Tail. She is Literature Officer for the Arts Council of England. cargo Grace Lau is a leading photographer - an influential contemporary of Jo Spence and Annie Leibowitz - and founder of Skin Two magazine.
Content
In the beginning: hunks in the gym; female body-builders; male and female nudes; polymorphous perversities; S/M clubs and parties; the founding of "Skin Two" magazine. Disneyland in dungeons: the bed, breakfast and bondage hotel; life as a voyeur-photographer and participant; dominatrixes in dungeons; portraits of perverts. From nudes to drags: transvestites and transsexuals; East End gender benders; marines, solicitors, bankers - in frocks. Who's looking at who: strippers (male and female); readers' wives exposed; post-modern perverts; documentary images from workshops.