ABSTRACT
The exhibition Les amies de Place Blanche, which took place at the International Center of Photography (18 May–2 September, 2012), was the first exhibition of Christer Strömholm in the United States. It was also the opportunity to discover an illustration of the early history of transsexuals in France. The transsexual street hustlers photographed by Strömholm, living and working around Pigalle in the 1960s in Paris, showed evidence of a transgender subculture in the French capital. What kind of subculture was it, and in which respect was it specifically different from male homosexual prostitution?
