rrose is a rrose is a rrose: gender performance in photography

Films with cross-dressed protagonists and advertisements featuring androgynous adolescents are just some of the evidence of the contemporary fascination with gender and sexuality. This book provides an art-historical perspective on photography that explores and plays with this controversial, sexy subject.

1st edition, 1997. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Lg. 4to., 223 pp., with full color and black & white images. Bound in publishers grey silk covered boards with photo illustrated dust jacket. Very slight signs of shelf wear, some mild rubbing to jacket. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.