Remembering Amos Badertscher, a self-taught photographer who chronicled Baltimore’s street heroes:
. © Estate of Amos Badertscher. Courtesy of CLAMP, New York.
“Amos Badertscher devoted his life to his photography,” said Brian Paul Clamp, the gallery’s founder, in an email to Artnet News. “He was passionate about telling the story of his years in Baltimore and the people he loved and remembered. Badertscher was also deeply protective of that legacy.” “There must have been something dangerously lacking in my upper-middle-class psyche because I did not find nudity, even youthful male nudity shocking, abusive, emasculating, pornographic or subversive,” Badertscher once said. “To photograph the naked body is, for me, the ultimate dimension in photographing the person.”. © Estate of Amos Badertscher. Courtesy of CLAMP, New York.
He would make prints of his portraits at home and fill their margins with handwritten anecdotes about the people depicted therein. The resultant artworks regularly straddled lines of desire, sympathy, eroticism, and—according to some critics—exploitation.
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