Research Catalog

Title

Legendary : inside the house ballroom scene / photographs by Gerard H. Gaskin ; with an introduction by Deborah Willis, and an essay by Frank Roberts.

Author

Gaskin, Gerard H., 1965-

Publication

Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Willis, Deborah, 1948-
• Roberts, Frank
• Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies

Description

118 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 32 cm

Summary

"Gerard H Gaskin's radiant color and black and white photographs take us insude the culture of house balls, underground events where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African and Latino, come together to see and be seen. At balls, high-spirited late night pageants, members of particular 'houses' - the House of Blahnik, the House of Xtravaganza - 'walk' competing for trophies in categories based on costume, attitude, dance moves, and 'realness'."

Subject

• Drag balls > United States > Pictorial works
• African American gays > Pictorial works
• Hispanic American gays > Pictorial works
• African American gays
• Drag balls
• Hispanic American gays
• United States

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works
• Pictorial works.

Note

• "Selected by Deborah Willis to win the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[Photographer's note] -- Taking us to the ball / by Deborah Willis -- [The photographs] -- The queer undercommons / Frank Roberts -- Acknowledgments -- The Honickman Foundation -- The Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.

ISBN

• 9780822355823 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822355825 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013010094

OCLC

842876976

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library