Author: FRIEDKIN, ANTHONY
Title: The gay essay / Anthony Friedkin ; [edited by] Julian Cox with Nayland Blake and Eileen Myles
Description: San Francisco New Haven. Connecticut : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Yale University Press 2014. First Edition. Fine copy in the original printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. still in the publisher's original shrink wrap. Physical description; 143 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Summary; For more than forty years. American photographer Anthony Friedkin (b. 1949). creating full-frame black-and-white images. has documented people. cities and landscapes primarily in his home state of California. During the culturally tumultuous years of 1969 and 1970. Friedkin made a series of photographs that together offer an eloquent and expressive visual chronicle of the gay communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco at the time. This is the first book to explore the series. titled The Gay Essay. in depth within the broader historical context that gave rise to it. 1969 witnessed the Stonewall riots in New York City and was a turning point in the history of community building and organized political activism among homosexuals in the United States. The Gay Essay provides a singular. intimate record of this crucial moment. Friedkin's portraits. taken in streets. hotels. bars. and dancehalls. demonstrate a sensitivity and an understanding that has imbued the photographs with an enduring resonance. This handsome book features seventy-five full-page plates and is accompanied by engaging essays and a poem by Eileen Myles. Subjects; Friedkin. Anthony 1949- — Exhibitions. Street photography — California — Los Angeles Region — Exhibitions. Photojournalism — Exhibitions. Gay community — California — History — Pictorial works — Exhibitions. Gay community — California — History — Sources — Exhibitions. ISBN: 0300206372. Weight in Kg appr.:

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