VOGUE-rs

Through a twofold approach, as a photographer and a sociologist, Lila Neutre questions the voguing phenomenon both as it was and as it is now. Since it was born in the gay, Black neighbourhoods of NYC in the 1980’s, voguing has spread across the social spectrum and become a mainstream practice. When...

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Main Author: Lila Neutre
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Genres, sexualités, langage 2016-11-01
Series:Glad!
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/glad/181
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description Through a twofold approach, as a photographer and a sociologist, Lila Neutre questions the voguing phenomenon both as it was and as it is now. Since it was born in the gay, Black neighbourhoods of NYC in the 1980’s, voguing has spread across the social spectrum and become a mainstream practice. When Lila Neutre’s text endeavours to encapsulate the spirit of the voguing’s origins – its rules, its code, its stakes – the photo series displaying nowadays “Vogue-rs” bears witness that whatever advertising and heterosexuality have done to and of it, voguing remains a place for re-inventing one’s self creatively and in a way that can still be liberating.
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