Blair Nicholas
Blair Nicholas - Castro To Christopher Gay Streets Of America 1979 - 1986 - Hardcover
Blair Nicholas - Castro To Christopher Gay Streets Of America 1979 - 1986 - Hardcover
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Description: A New York City native Nicholas Blair dropped out of high school in 1977 and hit the road landing in San Francisco where he helped form an arts commune. With a Leica rangefinder camera given to him by a childhood friend he honed his craft as a photographer amidst the explosion of Lgbtq life that was taking over from the hippie movement. From the Castro Valley in San Francisco to the conga - line of Christopher Street that cuts through New York's West Village there is a vanished world revitalized in the photos of Nicholas Blair. Now an internationally recognized photographer Blair is compiling these images for the first time exploring a time and place that altered the cultural makeup of America. Blair's photos of the streets are honest revealing evocative and tender; much like the streets and their theater of play were themselves. The timeframe of these photographs taken between 1979 and 1986, marked a time when post - Stonewall exuberance - the grudging acceptance and tolerance of a life and culture once criminalized - flowered and overflowed in concentrated areas (San Francisco the West Village Fire Island) and life was out in public and in the street. It was a community and world unto itself before that world became torn apart by the epidemic onslaught to come.
Title: Castro To Christopher Gay Streets Of America 1979 - 1986
Author(s): Blair Nicholas
Publisher: Powerhouse Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781648230349
Pages: 160 Pages, 100 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 6/20/2023
Category: Individual Photographers
Description: A New York City native Nicholas Blair dropped out of high school in 1977 and hit the road landing in San Francisco where he helped form an arts commune. With a Leica rangefinder camera given to him by a childhood friend he honed his craft as a photographer amidst the explosion of Lgbtq life that was taking over from the hippie movement. From the Castro Valley in San Francisco to the conga - line of Christopher Street that cuts through New York's West Village there is a vanished world revitalized in the photos of Nicholas Blair. Now an internationally recognized photographer Blair is compiling these images for the first time exploring a time and place that altered the cultural makeup of America. Blair's photos of the streets are honest revealing evocative and tender; much like the streets and their theater of play were themselves. The timeframe of these photographs taken between 1979 and 1986, marked a time when post - Stonewall exuberance - the grudging acceptance and tolerance of a life and culture once criminalized - flowered and overflowed in concentrated areas (San Francisco the West Village Fire Island) and life was out in public and in the street. It was a community and world unto itself before that world became torn apart by the epidemic onslaught to come.
Title: Castro To Christopher Gay Streets Of America 1979 - 1986
Author(s): Blair Nicholas
Publisher: Powerhouse Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781648230349
Pages: 160 Pages, 100 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 6/20/2023
Category: Individual Photographers
