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.

HAL FISCHER’S GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOS OF GAY LIFE IN SAN FRANCIS FD PERMANENT HOME

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, '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.