Del La Grace Volcano - Publications

Publications

Del has produced four monographs from 1991's Love Bites to Sex Works in 2005.

• Love Bites

Della Grace. Love Bites.Gay Men's Press, London 1991

"Perhaps the first published photographic monograph of lesbian sexuality in the world made from an insider's perspective. In the early 90's LOVE BITES generated a great deal of controversy and censorship in both the mainstream and lesbian/gay media. In the USA it was banned by Customs & Excise for two weeks. In Canada they cut the most "offensive" photographs out of the book before selling it. In England it was sold by mainstream booksellers but not in lesbian or gay bookshops who protested they couldn't take the risk or disagreed with the SM content. Although it has been out of print for over 10 years it is still considered a queer classic."

• The Drag King Book

Del LaGrace Volcano & Judith "Jack" Halberstam. The Drag King Book. Serpent's Tail, 1999

• Sublime Mutations

Del LaGrace Volcano. Sublime Mutations.Konkursbuchverlag, 2000

"Sublime Mutations, a photographic retrospective of Del LaGrace Volcano's work produced over the course of the last ten years, visually remaps the political and theoretical cutting edge of the queer avantgarde."

In Jay Prossler's introduction, Prossler claims that through LaGrace Volcano's work "we see the changing shape of our bodies and our communities reflected". Importantly however, we also glimpse the changes promised by our was of seeing, the mutations we read as well as those that are visited upon our bodies. LaGrace Volcano skillfully demonstrates that sublime mutations are always already the transformations that viewers project on the physical world, and especially on the body.

• Sex Works

Del LaGrace Volcano. Sex Works 1978-2005.(essay by Beatriz Preciado).Konkursbuchverlag, 2005

Sex Works shows the history of sex in the queer scene.