Hustlers
Eve Fowler
Capricious
Hardcover
132 pages
260×210 mm
2014
ISBN: 978-0-98986-562-3
Hustlers documents a photographic series taken on the streets of the West Village in New York and Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles between 1993 and 1998. Drawing on her background in both journalism and photography, the photographer explores queerness and social “otherness.” Here, her untitled, intimate images lay bare the ambiguities of identity, class, sexuality and gender—all of which combine to lend the figure of the hustler a semi-dangerous allure, and the ambiguous attractions of the social outlaw. Stark and unencumbered by typical compositional elements or dramatic lighting, Fowler’s subjects demand direct consideration, forcing the viewer to confront in a single face both masculine vulnerability and intrepidity. Accompanying this collection is an essay by Kevin Killian, an award-winning American poet, author and playwright well known for his contributions to LGBT literature.
Eve Fowler, born in 1964, is an American photographer and journalist. She holds a BA in Journalism from Temple University, and an MA in Photography from Yale.
www.evefowler.com
Capricious is a magazine and art book publisher based in New York, founded as a fine art photography magazine in 2004 by Swedish photographer Sophie Mörner.
