Hal Fischer: Seminal Works - Hardcover

 
9781597115957: Hal Fischer: Seminal Works
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1597115959 ISBN 13: 9781597115957
Verlag: Aperture, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Seminal Works brings together Hal Fischer’s iconic series Gay Semiotics with his rarely seen early photography and features a dynamic range of essays that consider queer culture and social change in San Francisco.

In the late 1970s, as gay men in San Francisco experienced a new sense of freedom following the Stonewall Uprising, Hal Fischer made Gay Semiotics, a photo-text project that categorized denizens of the Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods by social type such as the “jock” or the “hippie.” Sly and systematic, Fischer portrayed the sartorial codes of queer street style—earrings, handkerchiefs, jeans, or leather—that broadcast a range of desires to potential sexual prospects. The series became an influential record of a libertine era before AIDS, the rise of internet dating apps, and tech industry–accelerated gentrification transformed queer life forever. Tracing the formation of an essential American artist, Hal Fischer: Seminal Works includes Gay Semiotics together with Fischer’s rarely seen early photography and features essays that offer vital new perspectives on the history of San Francisco and the resonance of the gay rights movement across generations.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Hal Fischer (born in Kansas City, Missouri, 1950) is an artist, art critic, and museum professional. Fischer’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and is featured in both public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His books include Gay Semiotics (1978) and The Gay Seventies (2019).



Jarrett Earnest is a writer and curator. His books include What It Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics (2018) and Valid Until Sunset (2023).




Evan Moffitt is a writer, journalist, and critic based in London. He is the former senior editor of Frieze, and his writing has appeared in Aperture, Architectural Digest, Artforum, Art in America, ArtReview, Financial Times, The Guardian, and The New York Times.




Eugenie Brinkema is professor of contemporary literature and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.




João Florêncio is professor of gender studies and chair of sex media and sex cultures at Linköping University, Sweden.


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Verlag
Aperture
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1597115959
ISBN 13 
9781597115957
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
206
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