Stripper Pole at Peep Show, San Francisco
Photograph
Stripper Pole at Peep Show, San Francisco
From Fantasies
2005
Chromogenic development print, printed 2007
2/5 plus 2 AP
Image: 29 3/8 × 36 7/8 in. (74.6 × 93.7 cm)
Frame: 30 1/2 × 38 × 1 3/4 in. (77.5 × 96.5 × 4.4 cm)
Gift of the artist, 2019
Inscriptions Signed, titled, dated, and editioned in ink on applied label on frame verso, BC: Stripper pole, peep \ show, Calif. 2005 \ Lisa Kereszi #2/5
TextIn 1999, Lisa Kereszi began photographing two subjects concurrently: neo-burlesque dancers and the interiors of empty strip clubs. The resulting pictures became part of her series Fantasies, in which she explored common cultural symbols of fantasy, desire, eroticism, glamour, and romance. Kereszi describes the places she photographed as “spaces that reflect the passage of people.” Here, she has photographed an empty stage after hours. The worn, faded red carpet suggests the former presence of human bodies. Details like this rarely register in the fantasies that such places invite.
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
