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Coll2013.011
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Title: David Greene Shameless photographs
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2013.011
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
10.0 b&w photographs.
Date: 1974
Abstract: Between February and August 1974, David Greene photographed men and women who challenged gender stereotypes. The Darkroom
Gallery in Berkeley, California exhibited the images in the fall of that year. The collection includes ten of the fifty photographs
that were exhibited in his show titled
Shameless. The ten photographs capture twelve shameless gay men embracing their genderqueer identity.
creator:
Greene, David, 1950-
[Box/folder #, or item name] David Greene
Shameless photographs, Coll2013-011, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Collection processed by Michael C. Oliveira, 2013.
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
David Greene attended the University of Michigan, where he wrote and directed a feature length film,
Pamela and Ian. After graduating, he relocated to San Francisco, California. Where he photographed men and women who challenged gender stereotypes.
Fifty of his photographs were exhibited in a show titled
Shameless. The show opened in Berkeley, California in 1974 with more than 200 people attending, most in drag. The exhibition then traveled
to San Francisco in 1975 as
Andy's Donuts, Center of the Universe. The exhibition subsequently traveled as
Shameless to New York (1976), Chicago (1978), and Zurich (1979). Greene also photographed a series of images for the book
Men Loving Men published by Gay Sunshine Press (1977).
As of 2012, Greene has published three books,
Unmentionables: A Novel (2010),
Photographs (2012), and
Detonate (2012) He lives in Chicago with his spouse, painter James Stephens.
Box 85, folder 2,
Men Loving Men, photographs by David Greene 1977, Gay Sunshine records, Coll2011-011, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California.
The date and method of acquisition for the nine 8x10 photographic prints remains unknown.
The 11x14 photographic print of
Tea Time, Three Revolutionaries, San Francisco was a gift of Ian Stulberg.
The collection consists of nine 8x10 and one 11x14 black & white photographic prints from David Greene's show titled
Shameless. The first exhibit of
Shameless consisted of fifty photographic prints at The Darkroom Gallery in Berkeley, California.
Greene photographed mostly friends in their own homes between February and August 1974. The subjects are "shameless" in living
as gay men embracing their genderqueer identity. The collection also includes an article on the exhibit from
Vector magazine, October 1974.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gay men--Portraits
Photographers