In addition, Gillian Wearing’s Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (Queer and Happy) from 1992-1993 encapsulates the artist’s exploration of the difference between the private self and the public persona (estimate $12/18,000). Lissa Rivera’s Poolside, Family Home from 2015 is another highlight from the impressive selection of photographs on offer (estimate $3/5,000). Rivera began her photographic series Beautiful Boy in 2014 as a way to offer her friend, BJ Lillis realization of his “genderqueer” identity, which he expresses through wearing women’s clothing. Rivera has noted, “So much of identity is constructed from looking at pictures; looking at photographs and looking at a film can really change who you are.” Lillis’ lithe form, sleek bathing cap, red lips, and intense gaze evoke the starlets of classic cinema and the work of 20th-century fashion photographers, such as Cecil Beaton and Slim Aarons.

Christer Strömholm’s captivating gelatin silver print, Carla/Wanda, Hôtel Gérando, Paris rounds out the group (pictured right, estimate $3/5,000). Strömholm was a photographer and educator widely known as the father of Swedish photography.  His photographs of transgender women in the 1950s and 60s in Place Blanche district in Paris were published in 1983, as Les Amies de Place Blanche.