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Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)
Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946). Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep).

Original photograph by Roy Blakey of American actor, singer and drag queen best known by his stage name Divine and for his collaborations with filmmaker John Waters. Silver gelatin, with photographer's annotations along the right margin and verso in red ink, inscribed and signed in black ink "To Paul / Love / Divine." Crease to right margin, writing impressions throughout surface, pinholes to corners, slightly trimmed along upper right edge, approximately 8 x 10 inches (20.1 x 25,5 cm). Together with an uncommon 1973 mock-newspaper (National Peep) vintage press kit for the cult classic film, Pink Flamingos. Published by Saliva Films, tabloid style newsprint, 22 x 34 in, printed in black, half-tone photo illustrations, and featuring an interview of John Waters by Andy Warhol entitled "John Waters Talks: Filth as a Way of Life." 11 x 17 inches. Central horizontal fold, light wrinkles to edges, overall fine. 

John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.

From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon’s stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy’s Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.

Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946) Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep)

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Divine [Milstead, Harris Glenn]. (1945–1988) & Waters, John. (b. 1946). Signed Photograph & Pink Flamingos Vintage Press Kit Flyer (National Peep).

Original photograph by Roy Blakey of American actor, singer and drag queen best known by his stage name Divine and for his collaborations with filmmaker John Waters. Silver gelatin, with photographer's annotations along the right margin and verso in red ink, inscribed and signed in black ink "To Paul / Love / Divine." Crease to right margin, writing impressions throughout surface, pinholes to corners, slightly trimmed along upper right edge, approximately 8 x 10 inches (20.1 x 25,5 cm). Together with an uncommon 1973 mock-newspaper (National Peep) vintage press kit for the cult classic film, Pink Flamingos. Published by Saliva Films, tabloid style newsprint, 22 x 34 in, printed in black, half-tone photo illustrations, and featuring an interview of John Waters by Andy Warhol entitled "John Waters Talks: Filth as a Way of Life." 11 x 17 inches. Central horizontal fold, light wrinkles to edges, overall fine. 

John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.

From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon’s stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy’s Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.

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