Remsen Wolff @ Foam

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Remsen Wolff @ Foam

July 23rd, 2020 by fstop

Joris, Amsterdam 24 april 1991 © The Remsen Wolff Collection, Courtesy of Jochem Brouwer 2020

Remsen Wolff: Amsterdam Girls
11 September – 6 December 2020

“The exhibition Amsterdam Girls presents more than 50 vintage portraits and contact prints from the analogue archive of the American photographer Remsen Wolff (1940-1998). From 1990 to 1992, Wolff spent one month each year at the American Hotel in Amsterdam to work on the project Special Girls – A Celebration. For this project Wolff made a series of portraits of transgenders in New York and in Amsterdam, the city known at the time as ‘the gay capital of Europe’. These unique portraits range from the exuberant and glamorous to the subdued and vulnerable. Together, the photographs show the huge variety in gender fluidity in the 1990s, beyond the exhibited publicly in notorious nightclubs such as Club RoXY and iT. The individuals posing for Wolff’s camera vary from well-known figures like Jet Brandsteder (a.k.a. Francine), Hellun Zelluf and Vera Springveer (regular performers in clubs like RoXY and Mazzo), to anonymous transsexuals who often struggled with their gender identity, lonely and insecure. ”

Foam
Keizersgracht 609
1017 DS Amsterdam

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Type: Exhibition

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