Elizabeth Waterman was desperate.
In setting out to photograph exotic dancers for “Moneygame,” her book depicting strippers from a respectful, humanizing and refreshingly female perspective, the fine art photographer never anticipated how many clubs, dancers and publishers would say no.
So she started bringing donuts for the bouncers; she won over dancers by helping them gather dollar bills from the stage.
“I just wanted these girls to like me so bad,” she said with a laugh at her book’s launch party in October. “Collecting dollars is a big job. Some of the bigger cities like Miami have full-time busboys who sweep up dollars for the dancers. I just wanted them to know I was on their side.”
“Moneygame: Where Women Rule the Stage,” distributed by the Portuguese publisher XYZ Books, is the product of Waterman’s perseverance. Over the course of four years, she visited…
