Gay Icons
Hardback, 280x220mm, 160p, 70 col. & b/w ill. English edition Publication date: [07/09]
ISBN / Barcode: 1855144002
Categoria: Libreria Gay
Published to accompany a major exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in July 2009, this exciting new book celebrates inspirational figures in gay culture chosen by a group of today's leading gay personalities. The exhibition and book will coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York, a significant event in the history of gay rights, which will be commemorated internationally. Lavishly illustrated with photographic portraits of approximately eighty gay icons who, regardless of their sexuality, have had some direct positive influence on the selectors' own gay sensibilities, this stunning book will represent a wide cross section of portraits from the worlds of entertainment, art, music, literature, fashion and politics. The selectors will include Alan Hollinghurst, Jackie Kay, Sir Ian McKellen, Rt. Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Ben Summerskill, Sandi Toksvig, Sarah Waters and Lord Waheed Alli. Possible portraits to be featured are Quentin Crisp, Ellen DeGeneres, Diana, Princess of Wales, Daphne Du Maurier, Tom Ford, Larry Grayson, Christopher Isherwood, K.D. Lang, Joe Orton, Lily Savage, Village People, Oscar Wilde, Will Young, David Hockney, Billie Jean King, Vita Sackville-West, Simeon Solomon, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Kenneth Williams, as well as some perhaps more surprising additions such as Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson.
€ 42.50