La Bruce, a shocking diversity
At first, a shocking diversity of people burn in to your brain.
People in pain, people in distress, horrors of death and lust.
But in between you ask yourself why?. Is this life? could this
be our modern way of living? should it be? The work of Bruce
LaBruce has unlimited layers but gives you none, or all the
answers.
This description from the Peres Project exhibit (2002) gives us
some insight on the artists intentions:
"LaBruce's photography, like his films, explores, exposes and
ultimately challenges dominant cultural expectations of sexual
behavior. He showcases radical sexual practices with
underrepresented model "types" in order to question our
attitudes on pleasure, pain, beauty, life and everything in
between. His work assimilates strong influences from the world
of high fashion and commercial advertising to the low cultural
genres of pornography and trash TV. By constantly shinning a
bright light into the dark crevices of human thought, LaBruce's
work challenges societal norms and expands on notions of
permissible thought. While often crude, rude, and decadent,
LaBruce's work is unapologetic and ultimately achieves a level
of beauty unique in contemporary photography."