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Lindsay Morris | “You Are You,” Loupe

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From the article by Francine Weiss, PhD, for Loupe: Journal of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University:

Three years ago, artist Lindsay Morris began photographing a camp for gender non-conforming and transgender biological boys. Organized by the children’s parents in a different location each year, the camp provides a safe and liberating environment in which the children can explore their own identities and fully express their interpretations of femininity in the company of each other, their parents, and siblings. Morris aptly renames this camp, “You Are You” to protect the privacy of the children. What comes across immediately in Morris’ photographs is the unadulterated jubilation and sheer abandon of the children (consider, for instance, the gesture of the child in the photograph, “In Between”)—an idea further underscored by the vibrant and joyful colors in Morris’ images.

View the original article, pp. 10-16

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Lindsay Morris | “6 NYC Photo Exhibits You Can’t Miss,” Bigstock

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From the article on the Bigstock blog:

Morris’ first show in New York City documents the safe haven that is an annual weekend summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families. In 2012, parents and children of the camp agreed to have selected images published as a “New York Times Magazine” article.

This now annual series aims to reach beyond the confines of the camp and add to a conversation about the role that support plays in the lives of children who are gender-nonconforming.

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Jill Greenberg | “Is The Art World Biased?,” PDN

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From Conor Risch’s article for Photo District News:

Is The Art World Biased Against Commercial Photographers?

If you’ve been to a portfolio review, you’ve probably seen photographers with successful commercial and editorial careers sharing their personal work with curators and gallerists. For myriad reasons, many photographers who first established themselves by shooting assignment work want to build fine-art careers.

Though she had studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and interned at Pace/MacGill gallery, early in her career Jill Greenberg chose to build her commercial career “so that I could support myself,” she recalls. “I really wanted to do both,” she says, but felt she needed “to make a decision.” As her commercial career grew, it trumped her personal work. “I was working nights and weekends to establish myself as a commercial photographer,” she says. “It is sort of hard to do both.”

Brian Paul Clamp, who shows Greenberg’s work in New York, says he likes “that an artist may be doing commercial work” for a number of reasons. “If they’re a successful photographer, it helps financially to fuel their fine art,” Clamp says. Commercial work also helps get the photographer’s name out there, and “takes a little pressure off me not being their sole source of income,” he adds.

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Lindsay Morris | “Gender Non-Conforming Summer Camp,” The Huffington Post

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From Maddie Crum’s article for The Huffington Post:

“How beautiful and freeing and basic it is to be allowed to be one’s self.”

Every summer, Lindsay Morris goes to camp. She sits around a fire roasting marshmallows, she kayaks, she swims. On the last night of a relaxing week, she eagerly awaits what she believes is the camp’s highlight: a spectacular fashion show, where younger attendees strut down the runway sporting a look of their choosing. Kids of both genders zip up silky dresses and rock rainbow-hued gowns.

The camp is for families that teach their children about gender fluidity, allowing them to choose clothes and pastimes based on genuine interest rather than societal expectations.

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Lindsay Morris | “10 Must-See Art Shows to Check Out in July,” Paper Magazine

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From Kate Messinger’s article for Paper Magazine:

In Lindsay Morris’ new photography exhibition “You Are You,” the artist gives us a unique and compassionate inside look at a weekend at a summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families. “I intend to reach beyond the confines of the camp to contribute to a dialogue about the crucial role that support plays,” says Morris, whose pictures from the series have been featured in “The New York Times Magazine.” The collection of photographs are stunning, both in content and in style, exuding that excitement of summer camp that all children share.

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WANTED

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September 10 – October 10, 2015

Reception with the artist:
Thursday, September 10, 2015
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

ClampArt is pleased to present “WANTED: Peter Berlin”—an exhibition of self portraits from the 1970s and early 1980s.

More than forty years ago, Peter Berlin created some of the most recognizable gay male erotic imagery of the time, which quickly established him as an international sensation.

Born in Poland in 1942 as Baron Armin Hagen von Hoyningen-Huene, he is a relative of the celebrated fashion photo-grapher George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968). Raised in Germany, Peter Berlin received post-secondary education as a photo-technician, and in his early 20s worked as a celebrity portraitist for German tele-vision. However, it was around this time that he curiously began designing and sewing his own skin-tight clothing which he would wear as he cruised the parks and train stations in Berlin, Rome, Paris, New York, and San Francisco. After several long-term stays on the east coast of the United States, Peter Berlin eventually moved to San Francisco in 1969, and became a fixture on the steep streets with his signature look and perpetual posing. He soon began producing films and starred in the now iconic Nights in Black Leather (1973), co-directed by Richard Abel. Berlin then produced, directed, and starred in That Boy the following year, and made four shorter films through the mid- to late-1970s, while publishing and selling his photographic self portraits. Peter Berlin was the subject of several Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, three drawings by Tom of Finland, and at least one portrait by Andy Warhol, attesting to his worldwide celebrity.

Aside from his role in the sexual revolution and helping make gay men and gay sexuality more visible to the public at large, Peter Berlin was responsible for the definition of many gay archetypes which persist today, while contributing to the achievement of artistic legitimacy for erotic gay subject matter, in general.

Berlin’s photographic project is arguably closer to performance art, in that the act of cruising in his elaborate getups was the ultimate point of his ambitious pursuits. The expertly composed and printed photographs, gorgeous art objects in and of themselves, are ultimately records of his sexually pointed happenings.

As he grew older, Peter Berlin’s public cruising became less frequent, and now younger generations seem less aware of his large contribution to gay history. But, in 2005 Jim Tushinski directed and co-produced That Man: Peter Berlin, which helped spawn a resurgence of interest in and appreciation for Berlin’s work. “WANTED: Peter Berlin,” the exhibition at ClampArt, is mounted with the motivation to further support that comeback.

Peter Berlin resides in San Francisco quietly today, where he is still frequently recognized on the sidewalks by his fans. His photographs are represented in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, as part of the Robert Mapplethorpe archive (Mapplethorpe and Sam Wagstaff collected Peter Berlin’s work); in addition to The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington.

The exhibition is co-curated by Eric Smith and Mark Garrett.

Peter Berlin

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Born in Poland in 1942 as Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene, Peter Berlin is a relative of the celebrated fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968). Raised in Germany, Peter Berlin received post-secondary education as a photo-technician, and in his early 20s worked as a celebrity portraitist for German television. However, it was around this time that he curiously began designing and sewing his own skin-tight clothing which he would wear as he cruised the parks and train stations in Berlin, Rome, Paris, New York, and San Francisco. After several long-term stays on the east coast of the United States, Peter Berlin eventually moved to San Francisco in 1969, and became a fixture on the steep streets with his signature look and perpetual posing. He soon began producing films and starred in the now iconic “Nights in Black Leather” (1973), co-directed by Richard Abel. Berlin then produced, directed, and starred in “That Boy” the following year, and made four shorter films through the mid- to late-1970s, while publishing and selling his photographic self portraits. Peter Berlin was the subject of several Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, three drawings by Tom of Finland, and at least one portrait by Andy Warhol, attesting to his worldwide celebrity.