This is the debut monograph for American artist Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. (born 1993). It includes 30 recent photographs that explore representation through privacy and fiction, alongside interviews conducted by Brown with denizens of an adult movie house and video arcade in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York, called the Fair Theater. Featuring a conversation between Brown and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, the text is richly illustrated with artworks by Chris Berntsen, Roy DeCarava, Naima Green and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Born in Baldwin, New York, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. is an artist who uses photography to explore representation through privacy and fiction. Occasionally the . . . .go to book page >>

For photographer David Armstrong, the production of a fashion set—the stylists, hair and makeup, the outfits—offered the framework he needed to make his fantasy of decadent queer beauty a reality. While other components of his oeuvre feel akin to Peter Hujar, Bill Jacobson or Nan Goldin, these editorial photographs could have only been shot by Armstrong. Ahead of their time, they offer a new, queer and androgynous perspective—on the fawning lens of historical precedents such as Baron de Meyer—and shine with Armstrong’s undying love of beauty.
The 107 pictures in this book are drawn from 18 boxes marked Fashion now located . . . .go to book page >>