With Mascara, Mirth & Mayhem, photographer Susan Kravitz tracks 30 years of the Fire Island Pines.
Photographer Susan Kravitz has captured one of Fire Island’s best-known annual events for posterity in a dazzling coffee table book.
Mascara, Mirth & Mayhem is billed as a “provocative, introspective, sad and funny” look at the Invasion of the Pines, a yearly tradition that brings a ferryboat of drag queens to New York’s premier gay beach resort for a raucous Fourth of July celebration. Kravitz’s book is a compilation of 30 years of photographs, from the 1980s until today. Fittingly, it will hit retailers July 4.