Magazine Photo Spreads and Centerfolds

Across more than two decades shooting for Drummer, Mach, Bear, and other titles of the gay leather and fetish press, Jack Fritscher put his camera to work as often as his typewriter. Sampled here is a selection of that photography — the centerfolds, multi-page spreads, and photo ads that ran alongside his writing, most of it shot, cast, and composed by Fritscher himself, sometimes credited to Palm Drive Video, sometimes simply folded into the magazine’s editorial pages. Photography, for Fritscher, was never separate from journalism: it was the same eye, working a different lens.