Cruising
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (649 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1576875830 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 100 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
States’s subjects are more abandoned than furtive, and his photographs, while even more frankly erotic than Yoshiyuki’s, aren’t lurid or sensational." -Vince Aletti for Photograph magazine"The way Chad uses light, foliage, and composition makes Cruising (which he describes as a 'love story') weirdly romantic"-VICE. "The obvious precedent here is Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park, but that book’s views of voyeurs skulking around couples making out in Tokyo public parks at night had a comically grotesque quality
the other side A unique observation of how a small group of men goes about looking for sex, due to how society see them as, out cast or perhaps how they see themselves as. Overall interesting voyeuristic shots.
Cruising exposes this time-honored, gay tradition, dragging it out of the woods and into the light of the public eye.. Over the years, men with particular desires found spaces—certain parks, public restrooms, and roadside wooded groves—out of sight and yet in plain view, where they could meet, and with the use of silent signals and cues, pair off for intimate encounters. From the Pacific Northwest back east to Pennsylvania and New York, States obscures his subjects in the foliage of the woods and blends the various locations into one sensuous visual representation of this necessary, yet transgressive act. It is these spots, nationwide, and the men making use of them, that Chad States photographs in Cruising. With an oblique focus on hidden clearings, forest-lined parking lots, and the welltrodden paths where these encounters occur, States gradually began to include the men far off in the distance within his lush, dense landscapes. Sit in your car in your car and wait or take a walk through the trees. “Cruising” has always been a part of gay culture; the word itself is a code, innocuous to outsiders, but representing an incognito hunt for sexual partners to those in the know. These are the beautiful and surreal spaces where forbidden fantasies come to life
Chad States earned a BA from Evergreen State College and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. States currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Gordon Brent Ingram, Ph.D. is a scholar and practitioner of environmental planning and design. His works are part of the permanent collections of Light