Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 286

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

SHELBY SHARIE COHEN (1959 - )


Hot and Sexy at Amelia's (featuring Susie Bright, Rainbow, and Cerage).
Digital print, the image measuring 270x301 mm; 10 5/8x11 7/8 inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Cohen's signature, title, and edition notation "21 of 50" in ink on verso. 1988; printed later.

Accompanied by Cohen's Certificate of Authenticity, also with her signature and edition notation, and her Artist Statement.

Susie Bright contributed to the founding of On Our Backs, the first women-run erotica magazine and the first magazine to feature lesbian erotica fora lesbian audience in the United States. She became editor-in-chief for six years. The dressmaker of Bright's leather outfit is named Kathy Andrew. She first used latex in 1985 under the business Stormy Leather.

Amelia's was opened by the activist and community leader in San Francisco's LGBTQ+ movement Rikki Streicher in 1978 as a bar and dance club at 647 Valencia Street. It was named after Amelia Earhart.