In between are visual jokes about gender (a portrait of a gamine in a pantsuit sells unisex hairstyles), quips about permanence (a hand-painted "The end is near" sign hangs next to an "Infinity"), and political commentary (a grid of twelve images finds American flags in unlikely places: above a Peepworld, knitted onto a sweater, next to a scrawled note that reads, "We accept food stamps").
All have their equivalents in Ms. Goldin's preening, coupling, gender-bending portrait subjects (generally her friends, family members or intimates).
With his photographic series Chico, Dino Dinco problematizes the issue of sexuality and gender, presenting portraits of men that reflect a sense of ambiguity regarding sexual orientation.
Uriarte conceived the idea for the gender-bending portrait series after speaking to several friends about how male-female relationships have evolved since past generations, Feature Shoot notes.
Here is a portrait of gender far more fluid, fraught — and beautiful — than man versus woman.
"The Danish Girl" is a lovely portrait of gender identity, but it falls victim to its own decency.
"Just as incarceration has become typical in the lives of poor black men, eviction has become typical in the lives of poor black women," said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin whose research on trends in Milwaukee since 2002 provides a rare portrait of gender patterns in inner-city rentals.
The book, which came out in the Netherlands in 2010, follows children who have changed or are in the process of changing their gender and includes multiple portraits of them over the course of seven years.
Today - Canada calls China out over hacking, JJ Levine's portraits challenge gender, and lessons from a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em marathon.
And always — her gender-bending self-portraits, like the ad in Artforum for which she posed naked and well oiled, wielding a large double-headed dildo.
