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Before it was a show business genre, burlesque was an attitude. It was parody, outrageousness, exaggeration, pastiche--even grotesquerie. If in 19th- and 20th-century America the term came to signify a variety show of light comedy, dance, and strip tease, eventually descending to a plateau of triviality, cheap sexuality, and predictable gaudy costumes, it has now--Woo Hoo! Ladies!--been resuscitated. (It's amazing what a feminist revolution can accomplish when pasties and sequins are introduced.) In New Burlesque, Katharina Bosse takes a trip across the United States to meet and document every proponent of the unabashed renaissance that she can get her camera lens around. Her colorful series of let-it-all-hang-out portraits of Babette la Fave, Kitten DeVille, Kitty Crimson, Ruby Darling, Dirty Martini, D'Milo, Starlet O'Hara, Scarlette Fever, Ursulina, and their many sisters give a wild, wicked stage to the very grown-up darlings of a new century. Whether pictured in a saloon or a kitchen, by the side of a country road or in front of a parking lot, these dames show it just how they please.
Starring Honey Touché, Dagger Lee, Bonnie Dunn, Kitten on the Keys, Zoe Bonini, Queen of Hearts, Farhana, Ming Dynatease, Vivienne Va-Voom, Trixie Tanqueray, Lorelei Lane, and all their friends!
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 38 color.
About the Author
Katharina Bosse was born in Finland, raised in Germany and now lives and works in New York. She studied at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany and was awarded a DAAD scholarship in 1994 and also the Agfa International Award for Photojournalism in 1997. She has exhibited work in group shows at such prestigious institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Her portraits have appeared in the New Yorker, Spin and the New York Times Magazine.
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