1975 gay art photography

They influence our perception of the past and present. They encourage the use of the archive by artists and the recontextualisation and renarrativisation of the images in this exhibition, from documentary objects to visual art works and back again, could not have occurred without their forthright help.

Peter Hujar’s Photographic Truth

Long before Berenice Abbott admonished him to always have a project, he undertook his first, in rural East Texas during In , at the urging of gallery director Evelyn Daitz, he had a major retrospective of his work to that point at The Witkin Gallery. Since that time, he has focused his activities toward photography, and continues to mount exhibitions yearly throughout the U.

Boys of Summer

Through an intense period of experimentation, the artist seized the cultural, political and visual style of a generation of San Francisco gay men between the legalization of homosexuality through the Consenting Adult Sex Bill in and the eruption of the AIDS pandemic in the early s.

Open Eye Gallery's current exhibition has cast light on the little known work of gay African American photographer Alvin Baltrop who beautifully, and obsessively, captured the clandestine activities taking place under New York piers between and The waterfront was at this time in a state of abandonment and dilapidation, and played host to an invisible populace who exploited its potential as a spot for gay cruising, drug-dealing, prostitution and smuggling.