{"product_id":"9781648230349-castro-to-christopher-gay-streets-of-america-1979-1986","title":"Blair Nicholas - Castro To Christopher Gay Streets Of America 1979 - 1986 - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Castro To Christopher Gay Streets Of America 1979 - 1986\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Blair Nicholas\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Powerhouse Books U. S.\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781648230349\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 160 Pages, 100 Illustrations, Unspecified\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 6\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Individual Photographers","brand":"Blair Nicholas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622741680433,"sku":"IN-G-9781648230349","price":32.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781648230349.jpg?v=1724729328","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781648230349-castro-to-christopher-gay-streets-of-america-1979-1986","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}