Hal Fischer's "Boy-Friends," "Gay Semtics" and "18th St. Near Castro" were acquired by the Krammert Art Mm at the Universy of Illois.
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- NEW BOOK OF HAL FISCHER'S PHOTOS CAPTURE 'THE GAY SEVENTI' OF SF
- HAL FISCHER’S GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOS OF GAY LIFE IN SAN FRANCIS FD PERMANENT HOME
- HAL FISCHER: THE GAY SEVENTI
- HAL FISCHER: THE GAY SEVENTI
NEW BOOK OF HAL FISCHER'S PHOTOS CAPTURE 'THE GAY SEVENTI' OF SF
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Oct 17, 2019Failed to save articlePlease try agaThis article is more than 3 years image om Hal Fischer's 'Gay Semtics' seri, 1977, clud the monograph 'The Gay Seventi. “I was gay and lovg .
The ocsn of Fischer’s lightful look back on the evolutn of San Francis’s gay culture is the publitn of Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventi, a monograph of Fischer’s photo-text works published by Gallery 16. The book opens wh Fischer’s landmark seri Gay Semtics (annotated photographs dissectg gay signifiers, “archetypal media imag, ” fetish and street fashn). Part anthropologil study, part lampoong of the “Castro clon, ” and rigoroly yet lightfully nceptual, Gay Semtics remas as excg to look at 2019 as mt have been when Fischer first prented the imag 1977.
HAL FISCHER’S GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOS OF GAY LIFE IN SAN FRANCIS FD PERMANENT HOME
Hal Fischer, 'The Gay Seventi, ' 2019; published by Gallery 16. While Gay Semtics is likely his bt-known work, The Gay Seventi prov was not an outlier Fischer’s practice. In each of six seri clud The Gay Seventi Fischer reveals slivers of himself (and his sir), while matag a documentary distance om his subject matter and a crisp visual style—a feat the ntext of the massive social, polil and mographic shifts that took place 1970s San Francis.
Come for the hly prted pi of The Gay Seventi, stay for a nversatn between Fischer and SFMOMA photography curator Er O’Toole. The photographer and cric Hal Fischer worked on the ont l of history, rerdg gay life San Francis the 1970s the perd between the Stonewall rts and the AIDS crisis. Hal Fischer, “Street Fashn: Jock” om “Gay Semtics: A Photographic Study of Visual Codg Among Homosexual Men, ” 1977.
His tert their wrgs may be most apparent his 1977 portfol, “Gay Semtics: A Photographic Study of Visual Codg Among Homosexual Men.
HAL FISCHER: THE GAY SEVENTI
” In that portfol, Fischer acpanied his imag wh text explag, diagram-style, the signifince of accsori for the cisg gay muny. Hal Fischer, “Signifiers for a Male Rponse” om “Gay Semtics: A Photographic Study of Visual Codg Among Homosexual Men, ” 1977.
In 2018, “Gay Semtics” received a solo show at the Mm of Morn Art. Exhibns of the Gay Semtics seri and a reprt of the 1978 monograph renewed tert his art and generated numero articl, published terviews, and reviews. Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventi, which featur his major works, was published by Gallery 16 Edns 2019.
Essay by Hal once humoro, nceptually brilliant and visually enthrallg, the photography of Hal Fischer is gathered here for the first time Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventi is the first monograph to feature the plete set of photo-text works that Hal Fischer produced between 1977 and 1979 San Francis�s Haight and Castro neighborhoods. In addn to Gay Semtics, Fischer�s bt-known work (s recent facsie edn now out of prt), Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventi clus 18th Near Castro Street x 24, which was published as an artist�s book, Boy-Friends, A Salman and two other seri�Civic Center and Cheap Chic Fischer: The Gay Seventi brgs together, for the first time nearly four s, Fischer�s major photo-text vtigatns of gay life late 1970s San Francis.
HAL FISCHER: THE GAY SEVENTI
As the work monstrat, the late 1970s�after Stonewall and before AIDS�was a magil moment to be young and gay San Fischer (born 1950) grew up Highland Park, Illois.
Featured image is reproduced om 'Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventi. 'PRAISE AND REVIEWSSan Francis ChronicleTony Bravo"In 'Gay Semtics' and other works by Fischer, the e of text, diagrams and social dg of the imag feels extremely ntemporary the world of blogs and photo-diagram magaze featur. What surprised many at the time, Fischer says, was that his text imbued the imag wh a type of humor, simply by explag the imag and their social relevance the gay muny.
"KQEDSarah Hotchkiss"While Gay Semtics is likely his bt-known work, The Gay Seventi prov was not an outlier Fischer’s practice…. "AnOther ManSara Rosen[The Gay Seventir featur] Gay Semtics, a landmark seri of photo-text works providg a pneerg analysis of gay historil vernacular as unfold on the streets of San Francis�s Castro and Haight-Asbury districts. HyperallergicBridget Qunstreet photography married to a �gay semtics of the Castro.