Bill Costa | The Rose Bush was Attached to the Wall by Rusty Nails. Its Leaves Were Gleaming and the Flowers Had All the Tints of Flesh.
This is a black and white photograph of a nude man standing against a wall.
The Rose Bush was Attached to the Wall by Rusty Nails. Its Leaves Were Gleaming and the Flowers Had All the Tints of Flesh.

1992

Signed, titled, dated, numbered (2/5), and inscribed in ink, recto

Gelatin silver print

7.75 x 12 inches, image
10.875 x 13.875 inches, sheet

$1,200

Literature:
Gary Scharfman, Costa (A Stonewall Inn Book/St. Martin’s Press: New York, 1995), plate 2, illus.
Bill Costa, Icons (Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmünder Verlag, 1997), p. 50, full-page illus.

The title is from a text by Jean Genet (1910-1986).

Work by Bill Costa (1944-1995)