CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/22/2023

Joy and magnificence in Marilyn Minter's 'Elder Sex'

Featured spreads are from Marilyn Minter: Elder Sex, JBE Books’ beautifully-produced and celebratory new monograph based on the artist’s work for a 2022 New York Times feature on the joys and challenges of sex after seventy. It’s safe to say this book has taken NYC by storm, with recent reviews in Wallpaper* and CNN Style and a notable launch event last week at co-publisher LGDR's East 89th Street gallery. In her aptly-named catalog essay, “Screw it, this is who I am,” New Yorker writer Naomi Fry states, “Her work shows us that we are human in our fullness, in our repellent and attractive parts, and, too, that what counts as repellent can also often be attractive. In the Elder Sex, photos, Minter is unembarrassed to put on display what we are not used to seeing—what culture thinks we don’t want to see—and there is joy and magnificence in that gesture. The bodies that Minter depicts heave and pulse with sensation and texture, giving us something radical. They’re real, and they’re spectacular.”