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EXHIBITION: Bob Mizer: ARTIFACTS INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present Bob Mizer: ARTIFACTS, the New York solo debut of work and objects by Bob Mizer. * * * Most widely known as a photographer-filmmaker, independent publisher, and midcentury iconoclast, Bob Mizer (1922-1992) was an erotic auteur and a lyrical chronicler of the pre-Stonewall demimonde. In his meticulously staged idiosyncratic private work, Mizer revealed himself as a conscientious artist of intimacy and depth, a visionary stylist of the male-on-male gaze as it was refracted through a culture suffused with masculine iconography, which yet stymied and redirected the vectors of desire.

Exile is pleased to present Bob Mizer: Select Private Works 1942-1992, featuring a special selection of private photos by American photographer and visual mastermind Bob Mizer, exhibited now for the very first time. Consisting of 26 modern custom Cibachrome prints carefully produced in strictly limited editions from never before seen vintage Kodachrome film positives, the exhibition gives an initial insight into this artist’s extensive personal work and creative process.