![]() ![]() The second time he got caught we got ejected which was still pretty funny. He was standing at the stage and quietly taking the ones when the dancer wasn't looking which was lulz enough but what really took the cake was when he got caught he just sheepishly handed her the dollars like he was picking them up for her. I was with a friend who was drunk out of his mind. That being said, one of my funniest strip club experiences was there. They also generally have some pretty stringent no touching rules. Pink Pony - Good looking girls but not as beautiful as the Cheetah girls. Also, the Alluvia (their restaurant) is pretty not bad. I might go there if I wanted to take a client somewhere but classy generally isn't what I'm looking for in a strip club. Beautiful ladies but it's very cold and stand off-ish. I have found that there really is not much difference between us.Alright, let me give you the run down on the different Atlanta strip clubs and their various virtues (or lack there of):Ĭheetah - As many have mentioned, this is the classiest gentleman's establishment in Atlanta. Working with the dancers and conducting interviews with many of them, I got to know first-hand the stripper's workplace, the rules she must abide by, the people she must deal with, and the relationships-both good and bad-forged between the women. ![]() As one customer put it, "It's less of a hassle to watch someone take their clothes off here, without the involvement of a relationship." From the dancer's perspective, she gets "fulfilled emotionally without having to deal with intimacy.Īfter deciding to do a photographic series on strippers, I worked as a waitress at one of the clubs in Atlanta. In the clubs that employ them, men seek out a fantasy for a dollar with no threat of real intimacy. Strippers work in a sex world where sex usually never happens. These images challenge our vision of strippers and force us to reconsider our tendency to shut them out, to push their experience into a separate, lesser reality. We can recognize in the photographs the anger, the rejection, the competition that weaves like a smoky haze around the work these women, these naked girls, do. Like modern Solomes, they are dances on the lowest rung of the entertainment ladder. They dance a role created by the circumstance of their lives. Yet, they are all human beings who exhibit a measure of tenderness seen in these photographs. Many of the dancers are also prostitutes and drug addicts. What makes women take off their clothes in front of a lot of men for money? How can they do it? In this book, the dancers themselves will answer these questions in their own words so that the reader can look beyond the surface and into these women as individuals. For me, the important nugget of truth was how much we are all fundamentally the same underneath it all. My hope was to give the women some human dignity by having an opportunity to express themselves through words and stories. During that time I went undercover at the Gold Club in Buckhead, as a cocktail waitress (a la Gloria Steinem) for a very long month, to experience what it was like inside. I worked on this off and on for twelve years It was near the end of the project when the book deal came through. ![]() I was able to approach them as a woman interested in their stories, which I then later recorded through interviews. The women were not warming up to him, as they all had been approached by too many men asking to photograph them. The break came when my teacher and mentor, Dennis Darling, (studied under Harry Callahan) asked me to take over a fluff piece for Atlanta Magazine about strip clubs (all here in Atlanta). I wanted to know why they do it, how they do it, and what makes them do it.? I asked if they could help me find a dancer who would allow me to photograph her stripping. I was a bartender too (trying to pay for school) At this point, influences from my sociology background kicked in. I knew some bartenders who worked nearby at a strip club. Why did I decide to this project? Initially because I was doing a sequence assignment at Portfolio Center in Atlanta. ![]()
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