Background information, content
"The Hamburg photographer Roswitha HECKE lived in the 'Pigalle' district of Paris for two years in the 1970s. On this world-famous strip, she discovered the world of transvestites, a world previously unknown to her. She got to know many of these people living and working on the fringes of Parisian society personally and documented their everyday lives.The transvestites in her pictures want to be beautiful. They have bias-cut blouses, flared pants and cheap Charleston dresses with long fringes from Monoprix. But they have an aura that is captured in these pictures. It is an aura of shabby glamor, poverty, melancholy, but also of joie de vivre and a zest for life." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2006)
About German photographer, Roswitha HECKE (b.1944)
Photo books by and with works by Roswitha HECKE
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Joachim Sartorius
- Format
- Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) 15 x 21,5 x 1 cm., 128 pp., b/w ills., 1st print run, bilingual text: German / English