Hal Fischer: Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of Visual Coding Among Homosexual Men
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0976184176 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 56 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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He continues to live and work in San Francisco.. He arrived in San Francisco in 1975 to pursue an MA in photography at San Francisco State. Fischer's insistence on the visual equivalence of word and image is a hallmark of the loose photography and language group that included Fischer, Lutz Bacher, Lew Thomas and others working in the San Francisco Bay Area. This new edition reproduces the look and feel of the original volume, which reconfigured into a book format the 24 text-embedded images of Fischer's 1977 photographic series Gay Semiotics. Hal Fischer (born 1950) grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. First published as an artist's book in 1978 by NFS Press, at a time when gay people had been forced to both evaluate and defend their lifestyles, Gay Semiotics earned substantial critical and public recognition. Thirty-seven years later, the book remains a proactive statement from a voice within the gay community from a moment in history just before the devastation wrought by AIDS. Through his work as an art reviewer and photographer, he soon became embedded in the Bay Area's artistic and intellectual scene. Fischer's book circulated widely, finding a worldwide audience in both the gay and conceptual art comm
Shaun Greenleaf said The Way We Were. One day in 1978 I was standing in Paperback Traffic on Castro Street and found this book. I turned to the guy standing next to me and said something like "Wow, this is fascinating." He said, "Thanks, I'm the author". I was skeptical, but I said "If you can prove it, I'll buy a copy." He took out his wallet and showed me his driver's license. I bought it. My partner's mother found it "interesting" but didn't want to lend it to her friends. It really is an accurate reflection of that moment in time, just before the epidemic change. Five Stars a seminal book in the study of gay male dress, appearance, and identity.
cult classic field guide to The Castro's leather daddies, jocks and cowboys. (Veronica Maldonado i-D)