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03982aam a2200457 i 4500 001 C6EEAFC8586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190924s2019 it ac bc 000 0 eng c 020 $a 9788857241838 020 $a 8857241831 035 $a (OCoLC)1120692101 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d JPG $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 4 $a TR647 $b .B3374 2019 082 04 $a 770 245 04 $a The life and times of Alvin Baltrop / $c edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa. 246 15 $a Alvin Baltrop 250 $a First edition 264 1 $a Milano, Italy : $b Skira, $c 2019 300 $a 253 pages : $b illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; $c 29 cm 520 8 $a "For 11 obsessive years in 1970s and '80s, the Bronx-born photographer Alvin Baltrop documented the alternative world that existed in this once-run-down part of the city, capturing cruisers, sun-bathers, fornicators, and friends in that brief moment after the Stonewall riots and before the explosion of the AIDS epidemic. The book presents those photos and others by Baltrop, including many that have never been shown in public, and is publicated on the occasion of the late artist's first-ever retrospective at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Born in 1948, Baltrop picked up photography in his teens. He carried his camera with him to Vietnam, where he served in the navy and made a habit of photographing his fellow sailors. He moved back to New York in 1972, enrolling at the School of Visual Arts. He began shooting the piers in 1975--a project, thousands of negatives deep, that would come to encompass much of his life. He was so dedicated to it that he quit his day job as a taxi driver and would often photograph at the piers for days straight, living out of a van. 'Although initially terrified of the piers, I began to take these photos as a voyeur [and] soon grew determined to preserve the frightening, mad, unbelievable, violent, and beautiful things that were going on at that time,' Baltrop wrote in the preface to an unfinished book of these photographs. 'To get certain shots, I hung from the ceilings of several warehouses utilizing a makeshift harness, watching and waiting for hours to record the lives that these people led (friends, acquaintances, and strangers), and the unfortunate ends that they sometimes met.'"--Publisher's description 500 $a Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, from August 7, 2019 to February 9, 2020 504 $a Includes bibliographical references 505 0 $a On Alvin Baltrop / Douglas Crimp -- Early work, 1969-1972 -- Into the mystic : Pier 52 through the lens of Alvin Baltrop / Antonio Sergio Bessa -- In touch but out of reach : Alvin Baltrop, David Hammons, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Pier 52 / Adrienne Edwards -- I don't want to be alone : a remembrance of Alvin Baltrop / Allen Frame -- Things that I considered beautiful : reflections on The Alvin Bishop Archive / Mia Kang -- Pier 52, 1973-1986 600 10 $a Baltrop, Alvin J., $d 1948-2004 $v Exhibitions. 610 10 $a United States. $b Navy $v Exhibitions. $v Exhibitions. 650 0 $a Gay erotic photography $z New York $z New York $v Exhibitions. 650 0 $a Gay men $z New York $z New York $v Exhibitions. $v Exhibitions. 650 0 $a Gay culture $z New York $z New York $v Exhibitions. $v Exhibitions. 650 0 $a Piers $z New York $z New York $v Exhibitions. $v Exhibitions. 650 0 $a Photography, Artistic $y 20th century $v Exhibitions. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $v Exhibitions. $v Exhibitions. 655 7 $a Exhibition catalogs. $2 lcgft 710 2 $a Bronx Museum of the Arts, $e host institution. 700 12 $i Container of (work): $a Baltrop, Alvin J., $d 1948-2004. $t Photographs. $k Selections. 700 1 $a Bessa, Antonio Sergio, $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317031543.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C6EEAFC8586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search