NAITO, Katsu. West Side Rendezvous.

(No place): Wild Life Press, 2011. First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. A collection of photographs documenting the transvestite and transexual street-walkers of New York’s Meatpacking District in the early 1990s. The 45 images, largely portraits, intimately capture the unexpected beauty of the subject’s day-to-day lives. Street-walkers of all races and backgrounds, each with a different story to tell, are photographed in their immediate environment, the empty streets of “West Side” New York. A fine copy in stiff card covers with photo-illustrated dust jacket.