Sex-Theater Andre Gelpke Author:Ginna Molinari André Gelpke s series Sex-Theater was produced in the 1970s and depicts performers from a number of different sex theatres in Hamburg s St. Pauli district. The fascination that captivated me as a photographer came from the personality of the individual, from the performer who was prepared to realize in public the secret sexual fantasies of an in... more »hibited society, simply in exchange for a fee.
Sex-Theater was first published as a book in 1981 and quickly sold out. The edition produced by Spector Books together with cpress represents a new staging of the series: it includes an expanded selection of images and new texts, and is presented in a form that offers this collection of photos a contemporary framing. The period that we see here marks the beginning of an era in which a major part of what we do and what we are came to be sexualized and commercialized, a defining aspect of the way we live today.« less