Christer Strömholm’s photos of the women he lived with make up an intimate and sensitive portrayal of transgender women decades before such depictions were widely seen.
In 1959, Christer Strömholm, then a little-known Swedish photographer, found his way to Paris and to a group of people who would transform his life, and he theirs.
Mr. Strömholm’s sense of family was colored, darkly, by his father’s suicide and his mother’s remarriage to a wealthy ship broker. When he went to Paris, he fell in with a group of outcasts — transgender women living at Place Blanche — that quickly became an adopted clan. “This was his family, these girls,” said his son Joakim Strömholm.
His new friends were “the most unwanted people in Paris,” Joakim said. “He would see their beauty. It was nothing voyeuristic, scandalous, it was just normal life that he followed.”
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