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Tom Bianchi - Narcissus
Tom Bianchi - Narcissus
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TOM BIANCHI (B.1945)
Title - Narcissus
Type of Print - Print in Colors
Approximate Image Size - 10" x 7"
Tom Bianchi’s sex- and sun-drenched photographs of gay men in and around 1970s New York City document the halcyon years before the AIDS crisis. Bianchi graduated with a law degree from Northwestern in 1970 and embarked on a successful career as a corporate attorney. He moved to New York in 1975 to take a job as an in-house counsel for Columbia Pictures. He received a Polaroid SX-70 camera at a conference, which he took on weekend trips to Fire Island Pines—then and now a haven for gay vacationers. There he captured poolside snapshots of muscular men in tight Speedos and couples engaged in tender embraces along the shore. He also produced erotic portraits of friends at his East Village apartment. Around 1980 he quit his corporate job to pursue art full time, ripping up his law degree and using the pieces to create the collage ESQ—Notes from a Lawyer Who Left (1981).
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