Aiden

Mark Beard

1992 · Instant dye diffusion transfer prints, etching, hand-bound black leather book · Photographs

This book documents the artist’s experience of living with Aiden, a male prostitute he met while working in London as a set designer. It consists of Beard’s text, his intimate—sometimes explicit—photographs of Aiden, and Aiden’s own words, interwoven Rashomon-like to reveal the coinciding ties and disconnects between sex and desire.

Artist

Mark Beard

Date

1992

Medium

Instant dye diffusion transfer prints, etching, hand-bound black leather book

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Peter Hay Halpert Gift, 1998