“What does transparency keep obscure?”
—Judith Butler, in the 1999 preface to Gender Trouble (1990)

Queer Straight Photographs seeks to problematize straight photography’s privileged position as a presumably normative, ubiquitous, and transparent medium, especially when it attempts to represent subjects that attempt to evade normalization: that is, subjects that can be identified as queer.

Hand

Leaf

Thighs

Jock

Moon

Globe

Window

Wall

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