Terry Durham in drag. Photograph, 196-.

Date:
[between 1960 and 1969]
Reference:
2045303i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Credit

Terry Durham in drag. Photograph, 196-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photographic reproduction of a halftone print of Terry Durham looking at the viewer wearing a sparkly dress and necklace holding a feathered fan with her white-gloved hand.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1960 and 1969]

Physical description

1 photograph : print ; 13.3 x 8.2 cm

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Contributors

Lettering

Terry Durham Lettering printed in black on bottom recto. To Philip Terry Durham (written in blue ink, verso)

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Terry Durham, known as a drag performer in the 1960s, was a transgender woman, and one of the first in the UK to undergo breast implants and hormone treatment."
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

References note

Clare Barlow, Queer British art, 1861-1967, London: Tate Publishing, 2017, p. 180

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2045303i

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Where to find it

  • Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'

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