Fakir Musafar: Spirit & Flesh

Artforum | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

Fakir Musafar: Spirit + Flesh, text by Mark Thompson. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions. 196 pages. $50.

Here's a story: A young lad named Roland, going to high school in Aberdeen, South Dakota, during the '40s, decides to put on a corset and photograph himself as a woman. No big deal. Then he gives himself a tattoo. Fine. Then he coats himself with gold paint, puts rings through his nipples, and dons a mask. Whoa boy. Next thing you know (and thanks to Mark Thompson's text you know pretty much all you need to) he has become Fakir Musafar, today at ...

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