Baltimore Portraits

"These images of many of the denizens of Baltimore's gay 'underground' in the 1970s are often deeply disturbing. The literal nakedness of many of the subjects provides only a minimal index of how painfully exposed and vulnerable some of them are. I feel grateful to Amos Badertscher for having produced and preserved these images, and to Tyler Curtain for the responsive generosity of his vision of them."--Michael Moon, author of "A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol"

Amos Badertscher, a self-taught photographer, has had his work exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in Los Angeles and New York. In 1998, Badertscher, a collection of the artist's photography, was published by St. Martin's Press. His work is included in several anthologies and is the subject of many published articles. Tyler Curtain is Visiting Scholar in the English Department at Duke University.