Renegades: San Francisco: The 1990s

by Chloe Sherman (Photographer)

A tender, joyous portrait of the thriving lesbian subculture in ’90s San Francisco In the 1990s, queer youth, outcasts and artists flocked to San Francisco to experiment with art, self-expression, style and gender and to find community. Rent was affordable, paving the way for queer bars, clubs, tattoo shops, galleries, cafés, bookstores and women-owned businesses to emerge. A new wave of feminism embraced gender fluidity, and butch/femme culture flourished. The Mission district was the center of this queer cultural renaissance, and the feeling of community there was palpable.
Chloe Sherman was both a member of this community and an ardent visual chronicler. Her documentary photographic work on 35mm film stems from a commitment to capturing the vibrancy, tenderness, individuality, resilience and joy within this subculture that was derided by mainstream society. Distilling the spirit of the time, her debut monograph is a candid portrait of a vibrant era that connects current and future generations to the pulse of San Francisco at a pivotal chapter in queer history.
Chloe Sherman (born 1969) arrived in San Francisco in 1991 and earned her BFA in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in magazines such as Rolling Stone and Interview .

Genres: Photography, Lesbian, Nonfiction, Queer, LGBT

128 pages, Hardcover

Published September 19, 2023

Reviews

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

oh butches how I love you

[Anka Cebula · Rating 5 out of 5]

long live Chloe Sherman

[Keith Schnell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Renegades is an impeccibly composed photographic record of LGBT+ culture in the era before cell phone cameras maxe such documentation ubiquitous, focused on one of the few areas of the country where, in that more repressive time, that culture could more or less flourish openly. More broadly, it's a nostalgic peek back at that time: a time that was ultimately not better, freer or simpler, but which, by the absence of many of the worst problems and complications of our own, sometimes seems so.

[Jocelyn H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible! I absolutely love this.

[Nadin · Rating 5 out of 5]

🔥

[Léo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magnifique

[Gioia]

ik this is a photography book so i didnt exactly "read" it but i love these photos so so much

[hanita · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favorite photography collection…. like…. ever!!!!!!!