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One of the most admired photographs that Edmund Teske took was a black-and-white portrait of his boyfriend, Richard Soakup. In the photograph, Soakup, bare-chested and grease-covered, emerges from a dark interior , an automobile in the background, which he has clearly just been repairing. The natural light is focused on Soakup’s tousled, curly blond hair and smooth chest. As Julian Cox notes, “although Soakup is engaged in labor usually associated with men, the intimate image has a soft, almost feminine, quality to it.”