THE FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY OF BRIAN LANTELME AS REPRESENTED IN VARIOUS MEDIUMS
Coastal Grooves is the debut album of Dev Hynes also known as Blood Orange. Coastal Grooves was released in 2011 and comprises elements of jazz, soul, baroque pop, contemporary R&B, and electronic music. This album cover features the goddess Exotica photographed by Lantelme in 1997 – the same year Sally’s closed. Hynes was inspired by New York City nightlife and transgender icons including Octavia St. Laurent, a principal interlocutor featured in Paris is Burning and Sally’s patron Exotica. Complex magazine named this cover as one of the 50 Best Pop Album Covers. For more information about Coastal Grooves visit Blood Orange.
New York Club Kids By Walt Paper visually chronicles New York City nightlife of the 1990s. Released in 2019 by Damiani Books, this visual documentation to underground worlds – reflects 90’s nightlife, fashion, and street culture via rare photography and ephemera. Photographers including Brian Lantelme shared many unseen images, whereas, New York Club Kids showcases twenty-five fine art images from his Archives.
Candy celebrates and focuses on the transversal community – transgender and gender nonconforming / nonbinary people, transvestism, crossdressing, drag and androgyny. Brian Lantelme’s iconic photo of Octavia Saint Laurent graces the cover of the 11TH ISSUE (2018). Visual artist and writer Sunny Suits interviews Lantelme accompanied by a photo essay of thirty-three fine art images from his Archives.
Released in 2020 by Rizzoli, The Best of Candy Magazine, Allegedly – showcases the best content from the groundbreaking style magazine’s first twelve issues. Brian Lantelme photographs from Sallys’ Hideaway are featured throughout including the Brian Lantelme x Roberta Marrero collaborative art of Octavia St. Laurent.
The Stroll is an HBO Original documentary directed by Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker. The film focuses on trans history from the perspective of Black and Latina trans women who had been sex workers in the Meatpacking District in New York City during the 1980s and 1990s — in an area referred to as “The Stroll.” It includes archival footage as well as photographs. Trans women who survived this turbulent time provide an oral history through interviews throughout the film. The film also includes a focus on the murder of Amanda Milan, a Black trans woman sex worker killed in Times Square in 2000. Brian Lantelme shared unseen photographs of Amanda Milan from his photographic Archives. The Stroll is a Sundance Jury award winning documentary.