Vivienne Maricevic

Noted photographer Vivienne Maricevic grew up in Westchester County in New York. Vivienne used to go with her mother on Sundays to Times Square in New York City when she was a little girl. Maricevic got her first camera at age twenty from her twin brother after he returned home from Vietnam. A self-taught photographer, Vivienne took her first pictures in Bryant Park near Times Square and began photographing male nudes in the mid-1970's (her first male nude photos were of her boyfriend at that time). Maricevic went on to not only photograph transsexuals, male burlesque dancers, and live sex shows, but also various popular male and female adult film stars who include Vanessa del Rio, Kandi Barbour, Jerry Butler, Marc Stevens, Bobby Astyr, Candida Royalle, and Baby Doe. Her work has been published in several books as well as has been displayed in art galleries in such cities as Seattle, Munich, and New York City. Vivienne estimates that she has photographed close to one thousand men in the nude.