"Les Krims achieved instant recognition in 1969 with five exhibitions of his powerful satirical images, such as his Jewish mother naked on her living room couch, older Jewish men in a Coney Island sauna, and a naked woman wearing only a Minnie Mouse mask posing in front of an oversize cross made out of Mickey Mouse balloons. Over the years his work has been characterized as humorous, disturbing, misogynistic and revolutionary. A pioneer of contemporary tableau and fictional photography, his work has provoked impassioned dialogue about gender, photography's relationship to history, and the borders of promiscuity and taboo."
spitting out the word photography, buffalo, new york, 1970
sally krims, guns in her bra, posing with a cross-eyed woman, buffalo, new york, 1970
diane arbus lives in us # 1, new york, 1971
little person with ironing board (from, "the little people of america", 1971), niagara falls, new york, 1971
mrs. braverman, radical feminist, rochester, new york, 1968