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"The Hamburg-based photographer, Roswitha HECKE, lived for two years in the Quartier 'Pigalle' in Paris where, for the first time, she came across the world of the transvestites.
Roswitha HECKE got to know personally many of these people who live and work on the edge of society and began to photograph them. The transvestites in these photographs want to be beautiful. They wear bias-cut shirts, flares and cheap Charleston dresses with long fringes by Monoprix.
In her photographs, Roswitha HECKE documents this world which has an aura of shabby glory, poverty and melancholia but at the same time is characterized by an aura of joie de vivre and vitality.
'Pigalle' contains a text by Joachim Sartorius." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2006)
Roswitha HECKE got to know personally many of these people who live and work on the edge of society and began to photograph them. The transvestites in these photographs want to be beautiful. They wear bias-cut shirts, flares and cheap Charleston dresses with long fringes by Monoprix.
In her photographs, Roswitha HECKE documents this world which has an aura of shabby glory, poverty and melancholia but at the same time is characterized by an aura of joie de vivre and vitality.
'Pigalle' contains a text by Joachim Sartorius." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2006)
- 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