GAY SEMIOTICS by HAL FISCHER vtg 70s Castro Haight SF Queer Gay Art 2015 OOP NEW

Description: © and courtesy Hal Fischer, Cherry and Martin, Los Angelescopyrighted, do not copy, not public domain, not digital not to be reproducedGift Quality. Sealed in original publisher shrinkwrap. Brand New. OOP out of print, collectible thus. Gay Semiotics ♂ by Hal Fischer(semiotics, the study of how meaning is created and communicated through signs, each consisting of a form (a signifier) and what it represents (the signified)2015 reprint of the 1977 cult classic In 1975, Hal Fischer moved to San Francisco. Fischer’s 1977 series Gay Semiotics, brought these theories to bear on gay culture in San Francisco’s Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhood districts. A “lexicon of attraction,” as the artist has called it, this work classifies styles and types while acknowledging their ambiguity. Gay historical vernacular. For instance, images of men with handkerchiefs in their pockets feature text that explains the possible meanings of these items according to the “hanky codes” that gay men used to convey sexual preferences, but which also points out that the men could be carrying them for blowing their noses. Fischer’s photo-text deconstructions are laced with humor and a formal photographic esthetic indebted as much to textbook and advertising images as it is to the photographs of August Sander. Cult classic field guide to The Castro's leather daddies, jocks and cowboys. Other images in the series consider gay fashion, media stereotypes, and BD leather SOMA SM Folsom culture. Hal Fischer (American, b. 1950) For a short but intensely active period from the mid to late 1970s, Donna Lee-Phillips, Lew Thomas, and Fischer himself frequently exhibited together, wrote about one another’s work, and published books under the imprint NFS Press. The resurgent, renewed interest in Fischer’s work is taking place in a time called the PrEP Generation, a return to the 1970s in terms of the queer communities’ promiscuity and exploration. Additionally, the last decade has also seen LGBTQIA+ and the Leather Archives Museum Chicago communities flourish and all this has made fertile ground for Hal Fischer’s comeback over the past ten years. "Looking back, I am amazed at what I was able to accomplish and experience in just six years, from my first review for Artweek in 1975 to the inclusion of my work in the Photographs and Words exhibition that Lew organized at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1981. It was an exciting time, one that I could never have imagined when I set out for San Francisco in my Ford Maverick. " " but what is sad, today, about looking back to these images is reflecting on what this city has become. " -- hal fischer, 2020 His portfolio | Gay Semiotics (1977), 18th near Castro St. x 24 (1978), Boy-Friends (1979), and Cheap Chic Homo (1979)In light of earlier work makes clear that Fischer’s concerns with portraiture, homoeroticism, formal experimentation, and the tensions between word and image, were present in nascent form at the start of his career. A retrospective view likewise amplifies the viewer’s appreciation of Fischer’s signature wit & images of gay iconography document a sexual subculture while also provoking amusement. COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNT, photographs books magazines added at a reduced rate We carry those that we ourselves like and believe in -- that we think will excite, enchant, and endure. Original, collectible vintage photographs, unique books of photography; famous and infamous photographers, and rare Magazines of the era; Heartland vernacular, antique original classics. Ephemera unique & collection worthy. 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Richards, Richard Rosenfeld, William Schmeling (Hun) and Frank Webber (Bastille) The seeds of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation were planted in 1968 when Fritz Lohman and Charles Leslie held a gallery show of gay erotic art in their Soho loft. In 1990 they became a foundation dedicated to preserving art which many in the art world used to destroy. Ed Cervone "Three Sailor's". Or perhaps Patrick Angus' Hanky Panky - set in an adult peep show movie house. Darold Perkins has taken an Arrow Shirt ad and turned it into an ad instead. Next in the Drawings and Prints category we particularly love Paul Cadmus; the explicit Andy Warhol drawings -- he wasn't Tom of Finland.... but much more than Campbell's Tomato Soup We offer modern firsts, original photography, the arts, and gay erotica. You will also find a fine selection of signed copies, limited editions, and memorabilia because the goal is to deepen the pleasure of collecting. 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