08 Jun, 2021
Robert Giard: Iconic Portraits
Robert Giard (1939 - 2002) was a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer best known for his project Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers. In 1985, inspired by a performance of Larry Kramer’s play “The Normal Heart,” which focused on the AIDS crisis in New York, Giard set about documenting a wide survey of significant gay and lesbian literary figures in straightforward, but sometimes witty and playful portraits. For the next two decades Giard photographed over 600 famous and emerging LGBTQ+ novelists, playwrights, poets, and performance artists.
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