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ISBN-10: 1909526398
ISBN-13: 9781909526396
Publisher: Reel Art Press
Publish Date: 06/27/2017
Dimensions: 12.20" L, 9.90" W, 1.30" H

Lgbt: San Francisco: The Daniel Nicoletta Photographs

Photographer:Daniel Nicoletta
Foreword by: Gus Van Sant
Introduction by: Chuck Mobley

Hardcover

Price: $39.95

Overview

Glittering drag queens, gay politics and alternative theater: Nicoletta was at the heart of the gay mecca that was 1970s San Francisco

Daniel Nicoletta (born 1954) has been a leading chronicler of the LGBT civil rights movement in San Francisco over the last 40 years. This is the first book dedicated to his powerful photographs documenting the journey of the burgeoning lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender mecca that was San Francisco in the 1970s through to the present. Nicoletta is best known for his iconic images of Harvey Milk, one of the world’s first openly gay elected officials, who was assassinated by a homophobic colleague in 1978. Nicoletta portrayed glittering drag queens, the alternative theater world and the steadfast bravery of same-sex couples trying to live their lives amid often adverse cultural sea changes. Today, Nicoletta continues to document the reverberations of Milk’s legacy. He serves as a key point person for LGBT civil rights and Milk-related research. In 2014, one of Nicoletta’s photographs was used on a US Harvey Milk Forever stamp. LGBT: San Francisco is an essential gay history and a stunning photographic work that is not to be missed.

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LGBT: San Francisco is a joyous, poignant and occasionally sombre record of the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, taken from an extraordinary archive. It is at once a celebration, an exercise in visibility and a timely reminder of how recently the battles for gay rights were won and how fragile those rights remain.–Chitra Ramaswamy "The Guardian"
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Details

ISBN-10: 1909526398
ISBN-13: 9781909526396
Publisher: Reel Art Press
Publish Date: 06/27/2017
Dimensions: 12.20" L, 9.90" W, 1.30" H
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