Matthew Leifheit speaks on his dreamlike portrait of the LGBTQ+ haven
The New Yorker
“In grad school, I was doing research about this photographer, George Platt Lynes, who was an early 20th-century gay photographer; he did all this erotic work with men. He was really good friends with these artists who formed a queer collective called PaJaMa, which was Paul Cadmus, Jared French and Margaret French – they ought to be better known. They made these really statuesque, highly staged photographs on Fire Island where Margaret French’s family had a house.
Fire Island is supposed to be a utopia for gay people in some way, and there’s been different ideas about how that should look over time “Other queer artists sometimes think of camp as a slight – ‘it’s just camp’ – but I actually think there’s a lot of potential to say things with camp and I’m not afraid of it” – Matthew Leifheitit is a place that’s so incredibly beautiful, but at the same time contains, for me, a lot of my own fears.
“I think of Fire Island as campy. Through total seriousness, it arrives back at something humorous. If there’s an element of levity to it, it’s the kind of humour that arrives out of dead seriousness, or over-seriousness. It’s over-dramatic.
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