Halloween by Ken Werner, 2024
Reissued for the first time in decades, this underground classic explores, through the photographs of Ken Werner, a bacchanalia worthy of the pagan and occult roots of the Halloween ritual.
It documents San Francisco’s hugely popular adult Halloween celebrations from 1976 to 1980, assembling a visual narrative of American consciousness and popular culture as seen through lenses of queerness, black humour, and the macabre.
Once touted as the “Mardi Gras of the West,” the raunchy, mostly open-air nighttime costume parties documented by Werner were hugely popular events organised primarily by LGBT and sex worker advocates, attracting tens of thousands of curious attendees as well as conservative ire from around the nation.
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Publication Date: 2024
Condition: New
Page Number: 64
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Halloween by Ken Werner, 2024
Reissued for the first time in decades, this underground classic explores, through the photographs of Ken Werner, a bacchanalia worthy of the pagan and occult roots of the Halloween ritual.
It documents San Francisco’s hugely popular adult Halloween celebrations from 1976 to 1980, assembling a visual narrative of American consciousness and popular culture as seen through lenses of queerness, black humour, and the macabre.
Once touted as the “Mardi Gras of the West,” the raunchy, mostly open-air nighttime costume parties documented by Werner were hugely popular events organised primarily by LGBT and sex worker advocates, attracting tens of thousands of curious attendees as well as conservative ire from around the nation.
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Publication Date: 2024
Condition: New
Page Number: 64
*Ships within 2-3 business days
