‘Crotchwatching’
Most of these photographs represent an artistic and political time capsule of a unique moment in U.S.history. It was at the confluence of both the sexual revolution and the women’s movement.
I was a 20 year old girl, living alone in N.Y.C., working in the predominantly male field of photography. I was a hippie, who had hitchhiked up to Woodstock with only the clothes on my back, who slept under a black plastic garbage bag that first night as it rained.
My contemporaries were swallowing the new birth control pills, burning their bras and espousing notions of free love, girl power and equality with men.
1972 brought Ms. Magazine and 1973 Viva Magazine. Viva was intended to appeal to the sexually liberated feminist, it was there that I presented my photographic essay ‘Crotchwatching’, the first time photographs of male erections had been published in a newsstand magazine, for the interest and edification of women. But, as you’ll see, they were discretely shot beneath a layer of clothing , just as I imagined the female gaze would prefer.
