The Secret Life of America\u2019s Bible Belt
\nSwinging sex lives of everyday Americans
\nNaomi Harris\u2019s subjects are not the usual perfected androids who populate contemporary erotica, but ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives; this book explores a rarely seen side of sex in America. This edition is limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by both Naomi Harris and Richard Prince. The cover features a four-color, silk-screened, three-dimensional stamped-metal reproduction of a classic American motel sign, specially conceived and created for this edition.<\/p>\n
Richard Prince discovered Naomi Harris in TASCHEN\u2019s The New Erotic Photography and was so intrigued by her photos of American swingers that he tracked down the 34-year-old New Yorker, determined to make her his prot\u00e9g\u00e9e.<\/p>\n
When he discovered TASCHEN had signed her to do America Swings he asked to do an interview with her, where he reveals part of what makes her work so unique: \u201cWhen I look at one of your swinger photos what I\u2019m looking at is mostly you \u2018outside\u2019 the picture looking at what you\u2019re photographing\u2026 half-naked, all naked, taking these photos of next-door neighbors having sex\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
He refers to Harris\u2019s secret for winning the confidence of her subjects: to penetrate the world of middle-class mate-swapping she had to join them, often working in just shoes and a tool belt to hold her camera gear. Her extreme technique worked so well that in 48 months she was able to photograph 38 parties, crisscrossing the country from Mahwah, New Jersey, to Pleasanton, California; from Big Lake, Minnesota, to Washington, Texas. Her subjects are not the usual perfected androids who populate contemporary erotica, but ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives, including multiorgasmic schoolteachers, polyamorous nurses, bisexual senior citizens and the Mandingos, a group of African-American men who service white wives.<\/p>\n
Stunningly photographed and surprisingly sexy, Richard Prince describes Harris\u2019s America Swings as \u201csomething that\u2019s gloriously alternative, that isn\u2019t rentable, that can\u2019t be downloaded, that\u2019s uninhibited and filled with a sense of strange joy. Almost like a J. G. Ballard theme park for sex.\u201d<\/p>\n
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