Opposite this photograph is a page with a quotation from Fefu and Her Friends. See Publications
Particular Voices gives a selection of 182 photographs from over six hundred which are part of a wonderful, wide ranging, and important project to record the diversity of America's gay and lesbian writers. It won the Lambda Literary Award in the Photography/Visual Arts category. We are privileged, and very pleased, that permission to use this photograph has been granted by Jonathan Silin, the Executor of Robert Giard's estate. It is possible to buy original prints of Robert Giard's work and enquiries should go to www.vancemartin.com
New York Public Library (NYPL) holds around two hundred photographs by Robert Giard, including the one shown here of Fornes. If you wish to see any of Robert Giard's photographs contact the Library at least a day in advance, please PHGREF@nypl.org To purchase images go to www.nypl.org
My thanks to Vance Martin who has pointed out that the San Francisco Public Library also has a large collection of Robert Giard's portraits of Gay and Lesbian writers in the History Centre's Historical Photograph Collection. Contact details: sfpl.lib.ca.us
They hold fifty photographs, some of which are in Particular Voices, which have been selected because of the subjects' links with San Francisco.
This portrait was taken by Robert Giard in 1990 and is from the book: Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers, ©1997 (Cambridge, Massachsetts: MIT Press, 1998), p.213.