Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

(DRESS TO IMPRESS)


A collection of about 998 photographs, mainly Polaroids, documenting an individual cross-dressing over roughly three decades.
An archive of daily snapshots capturing the self-presentation of an individual in their Massachusetts home. The images are self-portraits in similar poses wearing dresses, skirts, high heels, and more, some editorial, and others provocative self-styling. The collection includes 7 albums (with 331 Polaroids and 62 prints), one binder (with 361 early Polaroids), and 244 loose Polaroids. The Polaroids measuring 83x83 mm; 3 1/4x3 1/4 inches and 108x89 mm; 4 1/4x3 1/2 inches, the chromogenic prints 86x124 mm; 3