Published on occasion of the first major museum exhibition of the work of John Waters. Presents a survey of his photographic works and stills from his earliest and seldom-seen films: Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, Roman Candles, and Eat Your Makeup. Includes images of objects from Waters’s personal collection that reflect his ongoing fascination with photographic imagery, mass media, and American popular culture. Accompanying these works are contributions by notable cultural and art historians that zero in on Waters’s cinematic mind and photographic eye. Acknowledgements by Lisa Phillips and Marvin Heiferman, with contributions by New line Cinema, Lisa Phillips, Marvin Heiferman, Gary Indiana, and Brenda Richardson. Interview with artist by Todd Soondz.

John Waters: Change of Life
Exhibition Catalogue
2004
144 pages; hardcover; 50 black and white, 180 color illustrations
New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 0810943069

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