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Rachel Papo | “Life and Lessons,” PDN

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From Dzana Tsomondo’s article on Rachel Papo’s series “Homeschooled” in Photo District News:

“Homeschooled,” a new series by Israeli-American photographer Rachel Papo, is a quiet meditation on the home education movement, a growing practice in the United States. But while much of the discussion around the subject tends to revolve around parents and their beliefs, Papo’s work focuses firmly on the lives and routines of a group of 15 homeschooled children living in New York’s Catskill Mountains. They are a disparate bunch: babyfaced True, with her long hair and rosary; Morgan clutching a microscope in one image and Thor’s hammer in the next; tiny Grisha and Anastasia enticing a squirrel from behind a window; the playful farm boy Roan bundled in a cowboy’s fringed jacket and coonskin cap, alongside his big sister Iris, whose aloof gaze reminds us that homeschooled or not, teenagers are teenagers.

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Peter Berlin | “The Pioneers,” San Francisco Magazine

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From Lauren Murrow’s interview with Peter Berlin for San Francisco Magazine:

“I think that in 200 years or more, the separation between art and pornography will blur. I know that one day my photographs will be expensive, but all that doesn’t matter to me. You know what my legacy is? If you click on my name on the internet, there are hundreds and hundreds of images. My image is there forever.”—Peter Berlin

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Peter Berlin | “Ich bin Berlin,” Wylde Magazine

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From Pippa Brooks’ article on and interview with Peter Berlin for Wylde Magazine:

Who is your favourite porn star? Mine is Peter Berlin. Even though his films and photographs were not created ‘for’ me (they were obviously made exclusively for a gay male audience) he leaves me breathless. More because I’m obsessed with human beings who become their own unique creation than necessarily because of a penchant for gay porn. Peter Berlin: the name is pure Warhol superstar, the image: pure Tom of Finland.

In the world of gay iconography, the artist Tom of Finland’s exaggerated, pumped, throbbing drawings of man-on-man physicality showed a kind of ultimate masculine fantasy. If Alberto Vargas was drawing the ultimate female form, Tom of Finland’s male pin-ups were the gay equivalent. The first time I saw Peter Berlin on film I literally gasped out loud.

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Lindsay Morris | “‘You Are You’ @ClampArt,” Collector Daily

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From Loring Knoblauch’s review of Lindsay Morris’ exhibition for Collector Daily:

If you walk around Lindsay Morris’ show and you don’t happen to know the backstory, it would be easy to conclude that her pictures are simply easy going summer pleasures. They’re images from camp – girls on forest hikes, walking through meadows of wildflowers, scrambling on a climbing wall, and getting dressed up for improvised fashion shows – and they’re full of the held hands and supportive groups we have come to expect from such youthful bonding experiences. I imagine that many of the people that visit this show will breeze in and out and never realize that something else is actually going on, because the nuances are so subtle.

The reality of Morris’ photographs is that nearly all of the girls in her pictures are actually boys (at least anatomically), and the camp is a special place where kids with “nonconforming gender identity” can gather and be free of the criticisms and discrimination they might normally experience. While same-sex marriage now has the approval of the nation, being a teen or tween and realizing you might be in the wrong body is likely still a source of plenty of personal uncertainty and social anxiety. So this annual camp is a kind of safe haven, where the children and their families can relax and feel empowered to be who they are (and thus the title, “You Are You”).

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Lindsay Morris | “Documenting Gender Unique Children,” Juxtapoz Magazine

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From Juxtapoz Magazine:

Until August 21, the series “You Are You” by photographer Lindsay Morris will be on display at ClampArt in NYC. The work documents a weekend summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families. Morris first attended the camp in 2007 with a loved one and began documenting the experience, which she continued for seven years after her first visit. The resulting images provide an intimate view into the lives of children who are in a safe environment where they are free to express their interpretations of gender.

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Winter

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2011

Signed and numbered on label, verso

Chromogenic print

60 x 40 inches
(Edition of 3 + 1 AP)
$18,000.00

40 x 27 inches
(Edition of 5 + 1 AP)
$12,000.00

30 x 20 inches
(Edition of 7 + 1 AP)
$8000.00

Klaus Enrique (b. 1975)

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Klaus Enrique is a Mexican-German post-contemporary sculptor and photographer. He was born in 1975 in Mexico City and currently lives in New York City. Before pursuing art, he studied genetics at the University of Nottingham and received an MBA from Columbia Business School. His work is known for recreating portraits by the 16th-century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo using organic materials like fruits, vegetables, and flowers. His photography has been exhibited in various shows and is part of the permanent collections at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Haggerty Museum of Art.

Peter Berlin | “Being Peter Berlin,” The Guardian

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From Dominic Rushe’s article on and interview with Peter Berlin for The Guardian:

Peter Berlin spent the 1970s and 80s lighting up the night as a gay icon. Often bare-chested and always in skintight jeans that highlighted a “talent” of epic proportions, Berlin would stalk the streets of Paris, New York and San Francisco looking for sex. Or was he? For Berlin, cruising was performance art.

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Peter Berlin | “Interview,” Butt Magazine

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From James Anderson’s interview with Peter Berlin in Butt Magazine:

Even during his 1970s reign as a gay sex icon, German-born Peter Berlin—not his real name—was a mysterious, aloof character, known as the Greta Garbo of Porn. He made and starred in only two commercially released films: “Nights in Black Leather” and “That Boy.” But these, along with erotic photographs he took of himself, and sold via mail order, ensured adoration from fans around the world, not least the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe, Rudolph Nureyev and Andy Warhol. For Peter, however, the initial thrill of fame quickly wore off. Now in his sixties, he lives quietly in San Francisco—his home for thirty years—and watches a lot of TV. It took ages to arrange to speak with Peter—he rarely answers the phone.

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See new work by Scott Daniel Ellison

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See new work by Scott Daniel Ellison
Image: Scott Daniel Ellison, “Werewolf,” 2015, Acrylic on board, 11.75 x 8.75 inches.

See new paintings by Scott Daniel Ellison on the ClampArt website:
http://clampart.com/2015/07/paintings-recent/#/1

Be sure to click on any image in the slideshow for a larger JPG with details on sizes and prices listed below.

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Lindsay Morris | “You Are You,” Musée Magazine

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From the Musée Magazine post concerning Lindsay Morris’ exhibition at ClampArt:

“You Are You” documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families. This camp offers and temporary safe haven, where children can freely express their interpretations of gender alongside their parents and siblings without feelings the need to look over their shoulders.

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