The Bronx-born photographer ptured gay culture on the outskirts 70s Manhattan and his work is fally receivg the attentn serv
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Bronx-born photographer Alv Baltrop spent days on end documentg gay life at the piers lg Manhattan’s wt si.
Now, his timate imagery, mostly unseen, is fally receivg the attentn serv a new exhibn at the Bronx Mm of the Arts New The Life and Tim of Alv Baltrop, which opened last week, over 200 photos om his overlooked archive shed light on the cy’s gay culture of the 70s. Pier 48 was an abandoned woon stcture where gay men sunbathed, cised and hooked up outsi of the gltery world of dis and Stud Piers (exterr) Photograph: Courty of The Alv Baltrop Tst“He documented a place where people uld go to hook up and have sex a public space, ” said Bsa. “He took them wh the eye of a gay or bisexual man actg out on his sir, ” said returned to New York to study art om 1973 to 1975, which led him to documentg the gay muny the Wt Village and along the piers om 1975 to 1986.
”Marsha P Johnson by Alv Baltrop Photograph: Courty of The Alv Baltrop TstHe only had a few exhibns his life, one at a gay nightclub. “He had a lot of trouble to pay his rent, he was a bouncer at a gay club the East Village, he really stggled to survive.