These photos capture the gay heyday of 1970s San Francisco. It's an intimate chronicle of post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS life in the Castro:
’s gay community with the Castro’s fabric of the city is captured across 24 stills, taken over as many hours at a bus stop at the district’s heart. As much a durational performance as it is a photographic chronicle, each image is accompanied by text that weaves back and forth between objective caption and narrative, filling in the moments that pass between each photo’s taking.
“Hal’s set up for the images was quite meticulous, and took some time. As such, the subjects are very aware that they’re having their picture taken,” explains Stephan. “Sometimes they perform for the camera, sometimes they ignore it, which is its own kind of performance. It’s interesting to think about the multiple ways of looking, these people looking at the camera, at us, and how we then look at that as well.
Hal Fischer, Civic Center, 1979, printed 2019, 3 carbon pigment prints. Courtesy of the artist and Project Native Informant, Londonand, though it maintains the “absence of metaphor and deliberate neutrality that draws from advertising and commercial photography,” an element which Hal identifies as common to all of his work during the period.
Hal Fischer, Cheap Chic Homo, 1979, printed 2019, 6 carbon pigment prints. Courtesy of the artist and Project Native Informant, London, a dissection of a friend’s outfit, an exemplary of uniquely San Franciscan dress sensibility. Known for its wildly unpredictable weather, light layering was the favoured tactic of the city’s denizens.
Then again, there’s also an undeniable sense of fun. Hal’s work, ultimately, is a loving tribute to his San Francisco, a city in which “Oscar Wilde would have found all the delights he envisioned in the next world and more,” he writes in the book’s closing essay. “It was great to be gay, and the Castro was the epicentre of the gay universe.”
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