スコット・ツィーハーは、とあるマンハッタンのアパートの地下室で、バイク乗りのゲイグループが街や森で過ごす写真を大量に発見。それがこの一冊に。 〈全編英語〉
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.
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Pub Date: 2010
Format: Hardback with color illus.
Pages: 108 pp.
Size: 7.95 x 8.00 inches
ISBN: 9781576875223