As a young man, living in Manhattan in the 1970s and '80s, Frank
Rispoli was drawn to the New Wave and Punk club scenes. Recognising
the inherent performance of sexuality and desire in both fashion
and club culture, he documented the intertwining of the two. Always
with a camera strapped around his neck, he frequented Danceteria,
Tier 3, Max's Kansas City, Studio 54 and many other clubs in Soho,
Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Midtown. Rispoli asked female
clubgoers, bar patrons, singers, and band members if he could
photograph their shoes, utilising the staged sets, props, and
bathrooms of the clubs, and the taxis, sidewalks, and rooftops of
the city, as his backdrops. A selection of these photographs forms
the basis of his first book - High Heels. Rispoli attributes his
interest in women's shoes to his inability, as a teenager, to look
women in the eye and, due to his shyness, focusing on their feet
instead. He drew further inspiration from the work of Guy Bourdin,
and his advertising photography of the period. Rispoli continues,
in his photographs, to capture the fun, freedom, and performance
found in other outsider communities and events, such as Wigstock,
and the burgeoning art scene in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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