Books Details
Author : Nan Goldin Pages : 140 pages Publisher : Steidl
Language : ISBN-10 : 3958296130 ISBN-13 : 9783958296138
Books Descriptions
Nan Goldin's seminal second book The Other Side is finally back
in print. Ever since the early 1970s Goldin has lived with and
among drag queens, documenting both their glamour and their
struggles. The Other Side is her very personal declaration of
love and gratitude to these drag queens, who showed her a way
out of the captivity of pre-packaged, socially prescribed
identity. As she put it: "The pictures in this book are not of
people suffering gender dysphoria but rather expressing gender
euphoria.... The people in these pictures are truly
revolutionary; they are the real winners in the battle of the
sexes because they have stepped out of the ring". In contrast
to much of the early 90s drag queen mania, The Other Side has
brilliantly passed the test of time: Goldin's photographs are
as beautiful, moving, and vibrant as ever, heralding the
utopian promises of a world where gender has stopped being a
prison -- a vision that remains as vital and acute as it was
when the book was first
