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    Two strip-club art photographers compare notes on race, region and what makes a good shot

    When photographer and creative director Adrienne Raquel set out to document strippers, the Houston native set her lens on the city's famed Club Onyx. The intention of photographing the upscale Black club (shot to look "like a 1990s Hype Williams video") was to "grant the chance for these performers to be as elevated as the culture they influence." The photos were shown in Raquel's first solo ...
    by Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times Jun 21, 2023 6 minutes
    Elizabeth Waterman, the photographer behind "Moneygame," a photo book depicting strippers and exotic dancers from a respectful, humanizing, female perspective, on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Santa Monica, California.

    When photographer and creative director Adrienne Raquel set out to document strippers, the Houston native set her lens on the city's famed Club Onyx.

    The intention of photographing the upscale Black club (shot to look "like a 1990s Hype Williams video") was to "grant the chance for these performers to be as elevated as the culture they influence."

    The photos were shown in Raquel's first solo exhibition, at New York's Fotografiska in 2021, and have now been compiled into the book "ONYX," published by Damiani.

    "ONYX" joins a tradition of photo books that includes Susan Meiselas' "Carnival Strippers" (1976), Bronwen Parker-Rhodes and Emily Dinsdale's "Wanting You to Want Me" (2022) and Elizabeth Waterman's "Moneygame: Where Women Rule the Stage" (2021), all of which provide a respectful, female perspective on a $7.6-billion industry that is often stigmatized and marginalized.

    "What separates the dancers in a strip club from other performance artists?" asks Nandi Howard in the book's foreword. "... The performers on these stages continue

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