The Infamous Spaghetti Sisters

Hardcover | first edition | unpaginated

Self-published, 2024. 

Oversize (29.7 x 42 cm) and deliberately impossible to hide on a shelf. De Orbe photographs drag queen and acrobat duo Shigella Problem and Miss Lucinda B. Hind in their studio, climbing everything they can find, hanging from ceilings, splitting apples with bare hands. The work sits at the intersection of the acrobatic and the erotic, drawing on 1960s Japanese erotica and showgirl culture. No context, no captions, no markers of time. The object itself is as camp and unapologetic as its subjects. A beautiful book. Edition of 70 copies. 

Condition: fair (bumps on corners)