Études photographiques. Revue semestrielle; Novembre 2011, no. 28. Ed. Thierry Gervais.
Paris
Société française de Photographie
2011
6-75
br.
ill.
Zeitschriftenbeitrag
1270-9050; 9782911961281
Text fr., engl. Publiée avec le concours du Centre national du livre, de la Fondation d’enterprise Neuflize Vie pour la photographie contemporaineet de Ryerson University à Toronto. Nebeneintrag.
Text engl. - "Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was one of the great photographers of the 20th century. This book presents his most powerful and acclaimed body of work: Les Amies de Place Blanche, a documentation of transsexual "ladies of the night" in Paris in the 1960s. Arriving in Paris in the late 1950s, Strömholm settled in Place Blanche in the heart of the city's red-light district. There, he befriended and photographed young transsexuals struggling to live as women and to raise money for sex-change operations. Strömholm's surprisingly intimate portraits and lush Brassaï-like night scenes form a magnificent, dark, and at times quite moving photo album, a vibrant tribute to these girls, the "girlfriends of Place Blanche." The photographs were first published in Sweden in 1983."