Preston, 52, East Haven, CT, 2016
from To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults
2018
21st C.
North America, U.S.A.
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) (sheet)
Published by
Light Work
American, founded in 1973
By (primary)
Jess T. Dugan
American, born in 1986
By (primary)
Jess T. Dugan
American, born in 1986
Author
Vanessa Fabbre
American, born in 1978
Medium:
Color archival pigment print
Credit Line:
Fenton Family Fund
Accession Number:
2019.51.8.1
Object Label
Maggie Dethloff, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Photography and New Media, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University:
Jess T. Dugan’s work explores issues of identity, gender, sexuality, and community through photographic portraiture. For this series, "To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults", Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States photographing and interviewing older transgender people, who, they note, are overwhelmingly absent from cultural imagery. The photographs and interviews reveal their subjects to be complicated individuals, whose experiences uncover complex intersections of gender, age, race, sexuality, and class. Preston is relaxed in his portrait, leaning against a wall, gazing out at the viewer. In his interview, he recalls the difference it made when he learned the word transgender. In contrast to Larry Benko’s comments on Jim Goldberg’s portrait of him, Preston’s interview recounts his father’s unselfconscious display of vulnerability and acceptance when Preston came out as transgender, presenting a different model of masculinity.
Provenance
Jess T. Dugan (dealer), St. Louis, MO; sold to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2019.
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