Aug 19, 2021 - Sale 2578

Sale 2578 - Lot 179

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

SHELBY SHARIE COHEN (1959 - )


Late Night at Amelia's 1.
Digital print, the image measuring 330.2x244.5 mm; 13x9 5/8 inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Cohen's signature, variant title, and edition notation 9/50, in ink, on verso. 1987; printed later.

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

Additional Details

This photograph was made at activist Rikki Streicher's legendary San Francisco lesbian bar Amelia's on assignment for Rack Productions, who produced erotic events for the lesbian community in the late 1980s. It was published in the ground-breaking lesbian magazine "On Our Backs." Cohen writes: "Thursday nights upstairs was where Rack Productions had all their hot, sexy, get down extravaganza events! Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' was vibrating in our bones and running through our veins and with a few drinks we lit up all of San Francisco with our queer selves."