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Sage Sohier

Bill and Ric, with Ric's daughter Kate, San Francisco, February 1987, 1987

Description

Maker

Title

Bill and Ric, with Ric's daughter Kate, San Francisco, February 1987

Year

1987

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 27.3 x 40.3 cm (10 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription: Signed, verso, ul, in graphite: Sage Sohier © 1987; inscribed, verso, at top, in graphite: Bill & Rick, with Rick’s Daughter Kate, San Francisco, 1987; inscribed, verso, lr, in graphite: (2) / 811 / 22M3Y / 14 sec / d & blx (?)

Type

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2015.87.2

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Any distance between us

July 17, 2021 - March 13, 2022

“I began this project in 1986 because the advent of AIDS had led me to think about the prevalence, variety, and longevity of gay and lesbian relationships—the opposite of the promiscuity that was getting so much play in the press. My ambition was to make pictures that challenged and moved people and that were interesting both visually and psychologically. In the 1980s, many same-sex relationships were still discreet, or a bit hidden. It was a time when many gay men were dying of AIDS, which made a particularly poignant backdrop for the project. This was before successful drug cocktails were developed. I was interested in how, as a culture, we weren’t used to looking at two men touching, and was struck by the visual novelty yet total ordinariness of these same-sex relationships.”
–Sage Sohier, 2014

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

I began this project in 1986 because the advent of AIDS had led me to think about the prevalence, variety, and longevity of gay and lesbian relationships –– the opposite of the promiscuity that was getting so much play in the press. My ambition was to make pictures that challenged and moved people and that were interesting both visually and psychologically. In the 1980s, many same-sex relationships were still discreet or a bit hidden. It was a time when many gay men were dying of AIDS, which made a particularly poignant backdrop for the project.

I was interested in how, as a culture, we weren’t used to looking at two men touching, and was struck by the visual novelty yet total ordinariness of these same-sex relationships. –Sage Sohier

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