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  Alvin Baltrop : the piers / edited by James Reid & Tom Watt ; foreword by Glenn O'Brien.
  
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• Variant Title:Piers
  
• Author/Creator:Baltrop, Alvin J., 1948-2004, photographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Reid, James, editor.
  Watt, Tom, editor.
  O'Brien, Glenn, writer of foreword.
  
• Published/Created:[Madrid, Spain?] : TF Editores, 2015.
  

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  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: TR654 .B264 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Baltrop, Alvin J., 1948-2004.
  Piers--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.
  Gay men--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.
  Gay men in art.
  Nude in art.
  Photography, Artistic.
  New York (N.Y.)--In art.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (one 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.
  
• ISBN:9788415931232 hardcover
  8415931239 hardcover