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Aiden

Mark Beard American
1992
Not on view
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

Object Information
  • 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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