fromThe New Yorker
5 days agoAn Enduring Archive of Queer Writers' Portraits
Giard's archival impulse has been compared to such singularly focussed photographic compilers as August Sander and Mike Disfarmer, but, in a eulogy written after Giard's untimely death, ... Allan Gurganus aptly dubbed him 'Our Nadar': 'Just as the great Nadar gathered the faces of each nineteenth-century artist or actor we might ever hope to see, Giard preserved the legs, tattoos, and laugh lines of Gay Lib Lit for future centuries.'
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