Aiden
This book documents the artist’s experience of living with Aiden, a male prostitute he met while working in London as a set designer. It consists of Beard’s text, his intimate—sometimes explicit—photographs of Aiden, and Aiden’s own words, interwoven Rashomon-like to reveal the coinciding ties and disconnects between sex and desire.
Artwork Details
- Title: Aiden
- Artist: Mark Beard (American, born Salt Lake City, Utah, 1956)
- Date: 1992
- Medium: Instant dye diffusion transfer prints, etching, hand-bound black leather book
- Dimensions: 28.6 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm (11.25 x 8 x 1 in. )
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Purchase, Peter Hay Halpert Gift, 1998
- Object Number: 1998.313
- Rights and Reproduction: © S. Mark Beard
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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