A queer photographer explores the pain and euphoria of sex 😌 The photographer Mark McKnight discusses ‘Heaven Is a Prison’, his powerful (NSFW) new book:
was 18 or 19 when a photographer’s work first hit him hard. “There were two shows at the Hammer Museum in LA,” he says. “I remember borrowing my parent’s car and driving into town to see them. The first was a Stephen Shore retrospective. He is probably the reason I picked up a view camera. The second exhibition was a Wolfgang Tillmans survey.”
But the narrative of this book is far more layered than provocative, black-and-white eroticism. Given his complicated relationship with coming out, it’s no surprise Mark wants to explore the tension between pleasure and pain. Even the book’s name -- I was a kid, I think they were probably all over the place. I will say that my high school “masterpiece” was this horrible picture of a transient street performer from behind. They published it in my high school yearbook! The subject is wearing a clown costume and descending down an escalator into a metro station. I spent hours in the darkroom dodging and burning . It was really important to me that the clown appeared to descend into this abyssal black. I spent forever printing it.
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