PHOTOGRAPHY MONOGRAPHS

Hal Fischer

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGS

Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies
Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies
GALLERY 16 EDITIONS

At once humorous, conceptually brilliant and visually enthralling, the photography of Hal Fischer is gathered here for the first time

Hbk, 10.25 x 12.25 in. / 110 pgs / 100 bw. | 10/29/2019 | Out of stock
$40.00



Hal Fischer: Gay Semiotics
Hal Fischer: Gay Semiotics
CHERRY AND MARTIN

Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 56 pgs / 24 bw. | 11/24/2015 | Not available
$25.00



Hal Fischer: The Gay SeventiesHal Fischer: The Gay Seventies

Published by Gallery 16 Editions.
Edited by Griff Williams, Troy Peters. Essay by Hal Fischer.

Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies is the first monograph to feature the complete set of photo-text works that Hal Fischer produced between 1977 and 1979 in San Francisco’s Haight and Castro neighborhoods. In addition to Gay Semiotics, Fischer’s best-known work (its recent facsimile edition now out of print), Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies includes 18th Near Castro Street x 24, which was published as an artist’s book, Boy-Friends, A Salesman and two other series—Civic Center and Cheap Chic Homo.

Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies brings together, for the first time in nearly four decades, Fischer’s major photo-text investigations of gay life in late 1970s San Francisco. Unapologetic, humorous, periodically subversive and conceptually driven, Fischer’s photo-text investigations continue to engage and amuse audiences. As the work demonstrates, the late 1970s—after Stonewall and before AIDS—was a magical moment to be young and gay in San Francisco.

Hal Fischer (born 1950) grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. He arrived in San Francisco in 1975 to pursue an MA in photography at San Francisco State University. Through his work as an art reviewer and photographer, he soon became embedded in the Bay Area's artistic and intellectual scene. He continues to live and work in San Francisco.



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Gallery 16 Editions

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Hardcover, 10.25 x 12.25 in. / 110 pgs / 100 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 87   

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ISBN 9780982767177 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CAD $55.00 GBP £35.00

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Out of stock

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Hal Fischer: Gay SemioticsHal Fischer: Gay Semiotics

A Photographic Study of Visual Coding Among Homosexual Men

Published by Cherry and Martin.
Text by Hal Fischer.

Hal Fischer's Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of Visual Coding Among Homosexual Men (1977) is one of the most important publications associated with California conceptual photography in the 1970s. This new edition reproduces the look and feel of the original volume, which reconfigured into a book format the 24 text-embedded images of Fischer's 1977 photographic series Gay Semiotics. The photographs in Gay Semiotics present the codes of sexual orientation and identification Fischer saw in San Francisco's Castro and Haight Ashbury districts, ranging from such sexual signifiers as handkerchiefs and keys to depictions of the gay fashion "types" of that era--from "basic gay" to "hippie" and "jock." Gay Semiotics also features Fischer's critical essay, which is marked by the same wry, anthropological tone found in the image/text configurations. Fischer's book circulated widely, finding a worldwide audience in both the gay and conceptual art communities. Fischer's insistence on the visual equivalence of word and image is a hallmark of the loose photography and language group that included Fischer, Lutz Bacher, Lew Thomas and others working in the San Francisco Bay Area. First published as an artist's book in 1978 by NFS Press, at a time when gay people had been forced to both evaluate and defend their lifestyles, Gay Semiotics earned substantial critical and public recognition. Thirty-seven years later, the book remains a proactive statement from a voice within the gay community from a moment in history just before the devastation wrought by AIDS.
Hal Fischer (born 1950) grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. He arrived in San Francisco in 1975 to pursue an MA in photography at San Francisco State. Through his work as an art reviewer and photographer, he soon became embedded in the Bay Area's artistic and intellectual scene. He continues to live and work in San Francisco.

PUBLISHER
Cherry and Martin

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 56 pgs / 24 bw.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 100   

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ISBN 9780976184171 TRADE
List Price: $25.00 CAD $34.50 GBP £22.00

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Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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