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The gay essay /

For more than forty years, American photographer Anthony Friedkin (b. 1949), creating full-frame black-and-white images, has documented people, cities and landscapes primarily in his home state of California. During the culturally tumultuous years of 1969 and 1970, Friedkin made a series of photogra...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Other Authors: Friedkin, Anthony, 1949- (Photographer), Cox, Julian, Blake, Nayland, 1960-, Myles, Eileen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : New Haven, Connecticut : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Friedkin, Anthony, > 1949- > Exhibitions.
Street photography > California > Exhibitions.
Photojournalism > Exhibitions.
Gay community > California > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > Monographs.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Photoessays & Documentaries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > LGBT Studies > Gay Studies.
Friedkin, Anthony, > 1949-
Gay community.
Photojournalism.
Street photography.
California.
California > Los Angeles Region.
California > San Francisco.
Homosexuella män.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Colin B. Bailey
  • Behind the veil: reflections on The gay essay / Julian Cox
  • And I'm Carmen Miranda: what liberation looks like / Nayland Blake
  • Gay as a / Eileen Myles
  • Plates
  • Catalogue of the exhibition
  • Afterword / Anthony Friedkin.