The Piers by BALTROP, Alvin - 2015

Madrid: TF Editores, 2015. First. hardcover. fine. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. 128 pages with text in English. Slim oblong 4to, black cloth-packed pictorial boards. Madrid: TF Editores, (2015). First edition thus. A fine copy -- as new in the original shrinkwrap.<br/> <br/> "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… Read More

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