Artist/photographer/writer Tom Bianchi who specializes in male nude photography has a new exhibition that opens today (and runs to Sept 16) of images he took of the gay mens paradise in the 70’s: Fire Island Pines. Called ‘Fire Island Pines Polaroids 1975-1983’ which is also the title of a memoir that Bianchi published a couple of years ago. Together with the photographs, it recorded the birth and development of a new culture at a critical time in America’s political and aesthetic life in what is often called the “golden” age in the 1970s.
The Exhibit itself is an homage to the free-spirited community that was Fire Island Pines Much of the good we see accomplished today for gay civil liberties and queer consciousness began on the beach at Fire Island, and Bianchi was there to record it all.
Tom Bianchi’s Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1975-1983
June 29 – Sept 16, 2017
Throckmorton Fine Art
145 East 57th Street, third floor
New York, NY 10022
USA
Labels: 2017, culture, eye candy, Fire Island, nudity, photography
