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Alvin Baltrop : the piers
- Title
- Alvin Baltrop : the piers / edited by James Reid & Tom Watt ; foreword by Glenn O'Brien.
- Author
- Baltrop, Alvin J., 1948-2004
- Publication
- [Madrid, Spain] : TF Editores, 2015.
- ©2015
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc+ E 18-139 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color); 24 x 31 cm
- Summary
- "Powerful, lyrical and controversial, Alvin Baltrop's photographs are a groundbreaking exploration of clandestine gay culture in New York in the 1970s and 80s. During that era, the derelict warehouses beneath Manhattan's West Side piers became a lawless, forgotten part of the city that played host to gay cruising, drug smuggling, prostitution and suicides. Baltrop documented this scene, unflinchingly and obsessively capturing everything from fleeting naked figures in mangled architectural environments to scenes of explicit sex and police raids on the piers. His work is little known and underpublished--mainly due to its unflinching subject matter--but while often explicit, his photographs are on a par with those of Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar and Enrique Metenides. While the outside world saw New York as the glamorous playground of Studio 54, Warhol's gang and the disco era, Baltrop photographed the city's gritty flipside; his work is an important part of both gay culture and the history of New York itself. This clothbound volume compiles the Piers series in one definitive monograph, a powerful tribute to a long-forgotten world at the city's dilapidated margins." --Publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Piers
- Subject
- Baltrop, Alvin J., 1948-2004
- Baltrop, Alvin, 1948-2004
- Piers > New York (State) > New York > Pictorial works
- Gay men > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > Pictorial works
- Gay erotic photography
- Nude in art
- Gay men in art
- Portrait photography
- Photography, Artistic
- Piers
- New York (N.Y.) > 20th century > In art
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Art.
- Pictorial works.
- Call Number
- Sc+ E 18-139
- ISBN
- 8415931239
- 9788415931232
- OCLC
- 910703046
- Author
- Baltrop, Alvin J., 1948-2004, photographer.
- Title
- Alvin Baltrop : the piers / edited by James Reid & Tom Watt ; foreword by Glenn O'Brien.
- Publisher
- [Madrid, Spain] : TF Editores, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Reid, James, editor.Watt, Tom, editor.O'Brien, Glenn, contributor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc+ E 18-139