Bruce Cratsley

[1][3] Cratsley attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1966, and then, in the early 1970s, The New School for Social Research, studying under Lisette Model.

[1] In 1978 Cratsley contributed the photo sequences for the musical The Class, performed by The New Ballet School at the New York City Center.

[4] In 1980, Cratsley's work, Atlantic City, 1977, an August beach scene, exhibited at the 11th Anniversary show at the Witkin Gallery, sold for $175.

[7] In 1995 Cratsley was included together with Barbara Norfleet, Olivia Parker and John Sturges in the list of bestselling photographer at Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.

Klein said of Cratsley: "Bruce transforms commonplace things through a keen sense of light and composition, and very skilled printing".

Another event he documented was Wigstock, an annual outdoor drag festival that began in the 1980s in Manhattan's East Village that took place on Labor Day.

Bruce Cratsley And Honey, by Elsa Dorfman
Bruce Cratsley And Mr Muffit, by Elsa Dorfman
Bruce Cratsley And William Leight, by Elsa Dorfman