"Selected by Deborah Willis to win the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Summary
Legendary features Gerard H. Gaskin's radiant color and black-and-white photographs of house balls, underground pageants where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African American and Latino, come together to see and be seen.
