The Nooner: Terry Miller’s Instant Images Polaroid Photo Show Opens This Weekend

August 12, 2022• byMichael Strangeways

**Intimate Images Photo Show/Terry Miller**

In Los Angeles.

But, you can also check out many of the provocative images online at the Tom of Finland Store/Culture Edit Gallery website: https://cultureedit.com/collections/instant-image .

Yes. These images are NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!!!

INSTANT IMAGES is an art show consisting of 200+ photos from the personal collection of Terry Miller, “It Gets Better” co-creator with hubby Dan Savage. The photos were taken by Terry and a number of other people but all have personal meaning for Terry.

If you’re going to be in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 13th from 5 to 8pm, stop by the CultureEdit Gallery at 1105 N. El Centro Avenue which is right off Santa Monica between Vine and Gower….just a couple blocks from Hollywood Forever Cemetery! Terry Miller will be in attendance with drinks provided by Tom of Finland Wines.

If you’re not going to be in the Los Angeles area soon, then just head to the website to check out the art…again, NSFW!!!

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

WHEN I WAS A GAY IN MY TWENTIES, I HAD A BOYFRIEND WHO TOOK INTIMATE POLAROIDS OF ME. WHEN WE BROKE UP I MADE SURE THE PHOTOS LEFT WITH ME, AND NOT WITH HIM. MY HUSBAND FOUND THEM ONCE AND HAS SINCE HIDDEN THEM FROM ME, HE LOVES THEM, AND FEARS I’D DESTROY SOMETHING FROM THE PAST THAT HE FINDS BEAUTIFUL.
IN THAT SPIRIT BEFORE YOU IS AN ONGOING SERIES OF INTIMATE INSTANTS. SOME OVEREXPOSED IN THE STYLE OF PHOTOS TAKEN BY AN INEXPERIENCED LOVER FOR THEIR PRIVATE COLLECTION, OTHERS POLAROID PORTRAITS AND VISIONS MASTERED BY MY FRIEND AND PHOTOGRAPHER ROMAN ROBINSON. SOME ARE THE OMNI-PRESENT SELFIES TAKEN BY ME FOR SOMEONE ELSE. SETTING THEM FREE INTO THE WORLD IS WEIRDLY FRIGHTENING AND LIBERATING. THERE’S ONLY ONE OF EACH. THE MOMENT HAS PASSED, BUT YOU CAN STILL HOLD IT IN YOUR HANDS. EVEN IF YOU WEREN’T IN THE ROOM OR THE BED WHEN THEY WERE TAKEN.
– TERRY MILLER

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.