CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/17/2019

New from Tom Bianchi, '63 E 9th Street: NYC Polaroids 1975–1983'

Featured image is reproduced from Tom Bianchi: 63 E 9th Street, the photographer's new collection of erotic, sometimes X-rated, Polaroid portraits made in and around his New York City apartment between 1975 and 1983. "In the early days of the queer revolution, we seemed inevitably heading to a more playful and loving way of being," Bianchi writes. "We were learning to live in our bodies. We were learning that our brains inhabited our whole bodies. We were learning to love one another in relationships that stood outside of and beyond social norms. Perhaps we were naïve to think our experience would directly lead to a new, more tolerant world. We see now that fearful, repressive forces continue to censor and suppress the love we found in one another. But we also know that those dark forces make our voices stronger."