Famous gay photographers
Peter Hujar
Photography is a field of art that, on the one hand, can preserve time and moment, tell us stories that happened or are happening in real second in different times and spaces. At the same day, it share with us the disguised beauty, the depth visible to the photographer’s eye, that often seems prefer an ordinary, unremarkable experience. The artist’s personal perspective, the way they watch the environment and people, becomes a universal experience, through which we are given the opportunity to see personal experience with another eye.
With the serve of photography, along with the thirsty facts, historical storm, political changes, and social movements of the 20th century, people and processes from that hour are still seeable to us. Photography helps us to see subcultures, to share the feelings of people with different identities, stories buried, covered by the by enormous processes, or the experiences of those left alone with the indifference of the system, their mutual care, cherish, joy, the process of self-discovery or protest against the dominant agenda.
By looking at the works of the artists listed in this article, you will understand how vital photography is
Ricardo Yan II: A Young Lgbtq+ Photographer's Journey
Discovering one’s manner in photography can be a lifelong journey. From the first snap you take, you hold endless possibilities of the caring of photographer you want to be and the subjects you want to capture.
Ricardo Yan II is best known for taking photos of the male figure and capturing the underground queer parties of Manila – taking inspiration from the nightlife photos of Studio 54. Today we talk to him about how a formal education in photography has influenced him and his plans for the future.
Can you tell us about yourself and how you started shooting on film?
I’m Ricardo Yan II, a photographer based in Manila, Philippines. My interest in photography started 14 years ago in grade six when we had a project called “photograph your friends.” I then used my grandfather's point-and-shoot camera to act that project so I predict I could say that I started shooting film at that time and later on became interested in shooting portraits.
Your college major was photography. How did this education affect you going forward in photography?
Studying photography at the College of Saint-Benilde has broadened my horizons i
In the 1960s and '70s, amid a climate of political upheaval and civil rights activism, LGBT communities across the US were uniting for visibility and change. Events like the 1969 Stonewall riots, which saw LGBT activists grow up against discrimination in New York City, helped to galvanize this movement by bringing together a generation of queer youthful people under a banner of pride. And the work of photojournalists such as Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies brought this movement to the masses through their groundbreaking photography.
A new exhibition at the New York Common Library titled Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50 brings together the work of these two influential photographers, as well as periodicals, flyers, and first-person narratives from this pivotal moment in LGBT history.
The exhibit is curated by Jason Baumann, the NYPL's assistant director of collection growth. BuzzFeed News spoke with Baumann, who coordinates the library's LGBT initiatives, about how photography helped to shape the modern LGBT movement as well as the lasting legacy of Stonewall, 50 years after the riots.
LGBTQ Photographers
It is astonishing the large number of LGBTQ photographers that have made a significant contribution to their craft.
Do you understand the gay photographer who was the first non-English and the first photographer to win the prestigious Turner Prize? Or the male lover Australian landscape photographer who has been awarded the Request of Australia? These are stories you should know.
These photographers have recorded history in the making. They contain chronicled the lives of ordinary folk, celebrities, and the rich and the famous. They hold brought images of far-off lands into our homes. They have helped build and develop the market for magazines such as Interview, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Glamour, GQ, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Tattler, Rolling Stone, Time, Vogue, Allure, Vanity Just, National Geographic, Details, or Elle. They have educated us on the many wonders of essence. They have helped create the fashion houses of Giorgio Armani, Revlon, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Elizabeth Arden, Yves Saint Laurent, Donna Karan, Hugo Boss, Cartier, Guess, Maybelline, TAG Heuer, Lacoste, Gianfranco Ferré, Levi's, Victoria's Secret, Gap, Acura, C