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Tom Bianchi: 63 E 9th Street

NYC Polaroids 1975 - 1983

Author: Tom Bianchi  

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In 1975, Tom Bianchi moved to New York City and took a job as in-house counsel at Columbia Pictures. That first year Tom was given a Polaroid SX - 70 camera by Columbia Pictures at a corporate conference. He took that camera to the Pines on summer weekends, those pictures became the book Fire Island Pines, Polaroids 1975 - 1983 published in 2013.

Now, some 44 years later, we finally get a first look at another extraordinary collection of Polaroids by Tom taken in his NYC apartment at 63 East 9th Street. Whereas Fire Island is an expansive communal experience happening on a sunny sand bar outside of the city under huge open skies, Tom's New York apartment was an intimate track-lit den, a safe stage where he and his friends invited each other to play out their erotic night games. Tom's New York City Polaroids take us behind the closed door of his apartment, "Back then we were in the early days of a revolution that seemed inevitably headed to a more loving, playful and tolerant way of being. We were innocents", Bianchi recalls. This is an essential companion book to Fire Island Pines and an important document of urban gay life.

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Critic Reviews

“Tom Bianchi's rarely seen gay liberation-era polaroids couldn't be more liberating.”

His subjects are friends, flings, one-night stands, but mostly lovers, each a characterin a different story.--Nathan Taylor Pemberton "Interview " --Stephanie Eckardt "W Magazine " Tom Bianchi's Polaroids, taken in late 1970s and early 80s New York, offer an intimate glimpse into the city's burgeoning LGBT scene at the time.--Belle Hutton "AnOther " Famed photographer Tom Bianchi is giving lovers of the male form a splendid gift.--Sebastian Fortino "Metrosource " "Tom Bianchi: 63 E 9th Street" presents a compelling, charged portrait of gay men in New York, depicted in their sexual prime in the golden years before the major devastation of AIDS.--Jeremy Allen "New York Times " As if looking through the keyhole of Bianchi's Manhattan apartment, these snapshots depict, yes, the ferocity of lust, but also the ardor that grows out of these encounters.--Dave Wheeler "Shelf Awareness " Tom Bianchi's new book 63 E. 9th Street. NYC Polaroids 1975-1983 offers an intimate window into the life of gay men in 1970s New York.--Miss Rosen "Another Man " Titled '63 E. 9th Street: NYC Polaroids 1975-1983, ' the photographer welcomes readers into his former New York City apartment to be free and sensual.--Cullen Ormond "L'Officiel "

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About the Author

Tom Bianchi was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1970 and became a corporate attorney, eventually working for Columbia Pictures in New York. He made paintings and drawing on weekends which came to the attention of Betty Parsons and Carol Dreyfuss. They gave him his first one-man painting show in 1980. Tom quit his job, tore up his law degree and pasted it into a painting. In 1984, he was given his first solo museum exhibition at the Spoleto Festival. After Bianchi's partner died of AIDS in 1988, he turned his focus to photography, producing Out of the Studio, a vibrant and candid portrayal of gay intimacy. Its success led to producing numerous monographs, including On the Couch, Deep Sex and In Defense of Beauty.

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Intimate erotic portraits from the Fire Island Pines photographer In 1975 Tom Bianchi moved to New York City, working at Columbia Pictures as in-house counsel. Columbia gave Bianchi a Polaroid SX - 70 camera, which he took to the Pines on summer weekends; those pictures became the 2013 book Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1975-1983 . Now, some 44 years later, we get a first look at another extraordinary collection of Bianchi's Polaroids, taken in his East 9th St apartment. Whereas Fire Island offers an expansive communal experience situated on a sunny sand bar out in the Atlantic under huge open skies, Bianchi's New York apartment was an intimate, track-lit den, a safe stage where he and his friends played out erotic night games. Playful, nostalgic and sexy, Tom Bianchi: 63 E 9th Street is an essential companion book to Fire Island Pines and an important document of urban gay life. Tom Bianchi was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1970. He became a corporate attorney, eventually working with Columbia Pictures in New York, painting and drawing on weekends. His artwork came to the attention of Betty Parsons and Carol Dreyfuss and they gave him his first one-man painting show in 1980. In 1984, he was given his first solo museum exhibition at the Spoleto Festival. After Bianchi's partner died of AIDS in 1988, he turned his focus to photography, producing Out of the Studio , a candid portrayal of gay intimacy. Its success led to producing numerous monographs, including On the Couch , Deep Sex , In Defense of Beauty and Fire Island Pines .

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Product Details

Publisher
Damiani
Published
30th May 2019
Pages
186
ISBN
9788862086462

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