Walter Pfeiffer

Walter Pfeiffer has been exploring the eroticized, festive and intimate territory of everyday life for over thirty years, aiming to visually translate notions of beauty and freedom in unprecedented ways. First celebrated by underground culture, his now cult work, emblematic of gay culture, prefigures a whole iconography that addresses the performative aspect of cross-dressing and the notions of sexuality and identity. Heir to photographers such as Wilhelm von Gloeden or Herbert List and to the painter Paul Cadmus, contemporary of Larry Clark, Nan Goldin or Peter Hujar, he has built a founding work for contemporary photography which has deeply marked the generations of Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Ryan McGinley.