Nightswimming

NightswimmingText by Richard Howard Stephen Barker has taken a camera into spaces whose existence hinges on their being unrecorded and anonymous. His photographs were taken in New York Citys sex clubs. The indistinct figures merge and melt into the industrial architecture of darkened cinemas and hallways reserved for anonymous sex, but there are flashes of clarity even heretenderness or indifference, passion or release. Richard Howard contributes an essay to the

100 plates

some in serial shots–taken at intervals of years or seconds

Like an anagram

suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable

The artist's brilliantly colored Fresson prints are reproduced in this elegant volume

Introduction by Bill Barich

sewn softcover with flaps

a place the locals call The Foot

“I was growing up

and Germany

Introduced in 1935 as the first modern color film

14 x 11 inches