General & Miscellaneous Entertainment Biography, Women's Biography - Strippers & Prostitutes, Photo Essays, Musical Theater/Broadway, Portrait Photography - General & Miscellaneous, Comedy - History & Criticism
Log in to track your reading progress.
Overview
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.Book Details
Published
October 15, 2004
Publisher
New York : DAP, Distributed Art Publishers, c2003.
Pages
96
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781891024993