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My Colorful Life

Pierre Keller

Edition Patrick Frey

Publication date : 2018/12/01
Weight 2905 g / Dimensions 29 x 29 cm / 408 pages
ISBN 9783906803555

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For ten or fifteen years, Pierre Keller kept a photographic journal of his life in the form of some four thousand Polaroids. They were shot in pulsating 1970s New York, where he stayed till 1983, on trips to South America, and on the northwest shores of Lake Geneva in his native region of Lavaux. His artistic companions in those days included the likes of Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Michel Basquiat and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Memories of shared experiences, as well as the deaths of a number of those portrayed, steep Keller’s Polaroids in every color of the rainbow, every tint of gay life in those days: brown skin, milky-white asses, red dicks, white dildos, sassy statements, the neon-green secrecy of the bath houses and true-blue moments of contemplative poetry.

Unlike Mapplethorpe, Pierre Keller never worked with professional models. He photographed men wherever he’d followed them or they’d followed him to. Keller, who always kept his SX-70 in a pocket of his old US Army surplus pants, describes photographing as a sexual act — and sometimes they literally went hand in hand.

Les souvenirs des expériences partagées, ainsi que la mort de certains d’entre eux, imprègnent les polaroïds de Keller de toutes les couleurs de l’arc-en-ciel, de toutes les teintes de la vie gay de l’époque : peaux brunes, culs blancs laiteux, bites rouges, godemichés blancs, déclarations impertinentes, secret vert fluo des établissements de bains et moments de poésie contemplative.

Contrairement à Mapplethorpe, Pierre Keller n’a jamais travaillé avec des modèles professionnels. Il photographiait les hommes là où il les avait suivis ou là où ils l’avaient suivi. Keller, qui gardait toujours son SX-70 dans une poche de son vieux pantalon en surplus de l’armée américaine, décrit la photographie comme un acte sexuel – et parfois ils allaient littéralement de pair.

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