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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: life and times of Alvin Baltrop
  title info:
    title: Alvin Baltrop
  name:
    name part: Bessa, Antonio Sergio
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bronx Museum of the Arts
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Exhibition catalogs.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 253 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm
  abstract: "For 11 obsessive years in 1970s and '80s, the Bronx-born photographer Alvin Baltrop documented the alternative world that existed in this once-run-down part of the city, capturing cruisers, sun-bathers, fornicators, and friends in that brief moment after the Stonewall riots and before the explosion of the AIDS epidemic. The book presents those photos and others by Baltrop, including many that have never been shown in public, and is publicated on the occasion of the late artist's first-ever retrospective at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Born in 1948, Baltrop picked up photography in his teens. He carried his camera with him to Vietnam, where he served in the navy and made a habit of photographing his fellow sailors. He moved back to New York in 1972, enrolling at the School of Visual Arts. He began shooting the piers in 1975--a project, thousands of negatives deep, that would come to encompass much of his life. He was so dedicated to it that he quit his day job as a taxi driver and would often photograph at the piers for days straight, living out of a van. 'Although initially terrified of the piers, I began to take these photos as a voyeur [and] soon grew determined to preserve the frightening, mad, unbelievable, violent, and beautiful things that were going on at that time,' Baltrop wrote in the preface to an unfinished book of these photographs. 'To get certain shots, I hung from the ceilings of several warehouses utilizing a makeshift harness, watching and waiting for hours to record the lives that these people led (friends, acquaintances, and strangers), and the unfortunate ends that they sometimes met.'"--Publisher's description
  table of contents: On Alvin Baltrop / Douglas Crimp -- Early work, 1969-1972 -- Into the mystic : Pier 52 through the lens of Alvin Baltrop / Antonio Sergio Bessa -- In touch but out of reach : Alvin Baltrop, David Hammons, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Pier 52 / Adrienne Edwards -- I don't want to be alone : a remembrance of Alvin Baltrop / Allen Frame -- Things that I considered beautiful : reflections on The Alvin Bishop Archive / Mia Kang -- Pier 52, 1973-1986
  note: edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa.
  note: Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, from August 7, 2019 to February 9, 2020
  note: Includes bibliographical references
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Baltrop, Alvin J
      name part: 1948-2004
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Navy
    genre: Pictorial works
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Gay erotic photography
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Gay men
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    genre: Portraits
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Gay culture
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    genre: Pictorial works
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Piers
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    genre: Pictorial works
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    geographic: New York (N.Y.)
    genre: Pictorial works
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Photography, Artistic
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Exhibitions
  classification: TR647 .B27835 2019
  classification: 770
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Photographs. Selections
    name:
      name part: Baltrop, Alvin J.,
      name part: 1948-2004
  identifier: 9788857241838
  identifier: 8857241831
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190924
    record change date: 20250318222627.0
    record identifier: in00004163714
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng