Naomie Harris. // America Swings

According to American film, television, and commercial pornography, the only people having sex in the United States are young, lean, and cosmetically perfect. Naomie Harris begs to differ. Penetrating the secret world of middle-class mate-swapping, and often working in just shoes and a tool belt, Harris presents ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives in this stunning Collector’s Edition with an introduction by renowned artist Richard Prince.

Fully immersing herself in this world, she was able to photograph 38 parties in just 48 months, crisscrossing the country from Mahwah, New Jersey, to Pleasanton, California; from Big Lake, Minnesota, to Washington, Texas. Her subjects are not the usual perfected androids who populate contemporary erotica, but ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives— including multiorgasmic schoolteachers, polyamorous nurses, bisexual senior citizens and the Mandingos, a group of African-American men who service white wives. Stunningly photographed and surprisingly sexy, Richard Prince describes Harris’ America Swings as “something that’s gloriously alternative, that isn’t rentable, that can’t be downloaded, that’s uninhibited and filled with a sense of strange joy. Almost like a J. G. Ballard theme park for sex.”

This edition is limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by both Naomie Harris and Richard Prince. The cover features a four-color, silk-screened, three-dimensional stamped-metal reproduction of a classic American motel sign, specially conceived and created for this edition.