GAY BIKERS Early 1970s Photos Homoerotic Subculture Motorcycle Leather Party

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Band of Bikers

Author: Scott Zieher

Publisher/Date: PowerHouse Books; (c. 2010) First Edition

ISBN: 1576875229
ISBN-13: 9781576875223

Format/Condition: New hardcover book in Fine condition. The two tiny marks on front cover were part of the photograph that was used for the cover. It is not a flaw. 108 pages; 8.1 x 7.6 inches. Profusely illustrated with color photographs.

Description: This book is a photo album with an introductory essay.

In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the effects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs, presented for the first time in Band of Bikers, offer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of an entire generation at its carefree zenith.

Newly aware of muscle and biker magazines and their heavy-handed eroticism, photographer and photographed brim with a subtly vibrant, chromatic pride. The photographs as a whole bring into focus a brief, specific period of relative innocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more often than not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones of their most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual light cast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality and underground motorcycle chic, to vernacular photography’s pop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spirit of camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Like a real-world set for Scorpio Rising casually captured by an unpretentious extra, presented as Band of Bikers and accompanied by an essay by Zieher, this found cache of old-school, leather party snapshots attains archeological significance.

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