FIRE ISLAND PINES - POLAROIDS 1975-1983 [WITH] 63 E 9TH STREET - POLAROIDS 1975-1983 [TWO VOLUMES] by Bianchi, Tom - 2018/2019

damiani: art book, 2013. second printing, 2013. beautiful and touching remembrance of summers spent on fire island. bianchi discovered the gay community of the island when he was fresh out of law school, and began regularly documenting its residents and their exquisite parties. new york: damiani. isbn: 9788862082709. 10.25 x 9". 210 pages. hardcover. book condition: fine. jacket condition: near fine.

Damiani, 2013. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 8x1x10. A bump to lower front corner. The dustjacket has some light soiling and some light wear. Tom Bianchi’s erotic and celebratory Polaroids of magical summers on Fire Island. Growing up in the 1950s, Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago and pick up 25-cent “physique” magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine, he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Island. “Fire Island sounded exotic, perhaps a name made up by the photographer,” he recalls in the preface to his latest monograph. “I had no idea it was a real place. Certainly, I had no idea then that it was a place I would one day call home.” In 1970, fresh out of law school, Bianchi began traveling to New York, and was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines, where he encountered a community of gay men. Using an SX-70… Read More

Damiani Editore, 2013-05-30. Second Printing. hardcover. Very Good. 10x8x1. Third printing is tight and unmarked in shelf soiled price intact jacket. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

New York: DAmiani, 2013. second printing. Hardcover. fine/very good. Quarto. 26cm x22cm. Unpaginated. Very light soiling to dust jacket.

Damiani. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover copy in fine condition. DJ in fine condition and in protective mylar cover. Photos available on request. . Fine. Hardcover. 2013.

Damiani, 2013 hardback book in near fine conditiondust jacket is good to very good,slight wear-no tears,1st edition,2nd printing. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.