At once humorous, conceptually brilliant and visually enthralling, the photography of Hal Fischer is gathered here for the first time Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies...

At once humorous, conceptually brilliant and visually enthralling, the photography of Hal Fischer is gathered here for the first time

Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies is the first monograph to feature the complete set of photo-text works that Hal Fischer produced between 1977 and 1979 in San Francisco's Haight and Castro neighborhoods. In addition to Gay Semiotics, Fischer's best-known work (its recent facsimile edition now out of print), Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies includes 18th Near Castro Street x 24, which was published as an artist's book, Boy-Friends, A Salesman and two other series--Civic Center and Cheap Chic Homo.

Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies brings together, for the first time in nearly four decades, Fischer's major photo-text investigations of gay life in late 1970s San Francisco. Unapologetic, humorous, periodically subversive and conceptually driven, Fischer's photo-text investigations continue to engage and amuse audiences. As the work demonstrates, the late 1970s--after Stonewall and before AIDS--was a magical moment to be young and gay in San Francisco.