The Schaefer, Schmoke and O’Malley eras in Baltimore weren’t only about tourists at the Inner Harbor, freshly-painted “City That Reads” benches and guitar-strumming proto-governors.
There were political protests, surreal sidewalk scenes and animal curiosities. And after hours, there was the edgy world of sex workers, BDSM play and underground music.
Photographer Joseph Kohl captured it all in a breathtaking body of work, the subject of a show opening this week at the Maryland Historical Society: Unscripted Moments: The Life & Photography of Joseph Kohl.
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