{"product_id":"gay-semiotics-hal-fischer","title":"Gay Semiotics - Hal Fischer","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSince 1977—when the first exhibition of this series took place in San Francisco—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGay Semiotics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has been recognized as a unique and pioneering analysis of a gay historical vernacular and as an irreverent appropriation of structuralist theory. Taken directly from Fischer’s personal experiences living in the vibrant gay communities of San Francisco’s Castro and Haight-Ashbury districts, Fischer’s photo-text deconstructions are laced with humor and a formal photographic esthetic indebted as much to textbook and advertising images as it is to the photographs of August Sander. Proud, unapologetic, humorous, and purposefully banal, the work drew immediate critical praise. In both its theoretical underpinnings and conceptual approach, Fischer’s work shows the influence of Lew Thomas, San Francisco photographer and catalyst for a California-based photography and language movement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGay Semiotics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is recognized as\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eone of the first conceptual works to bring the language of structuralism and linguistics into photographic practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the time it garnered  substantial critical and public recognition and today the book remains a proactive statement from a voice within the gay community from a moment in history just before the devastation wrought by AIDS.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished in 2 editions, the first for the exhibition in 1977, and a second in 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Offbrand Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47417892274493,"sku":"","price":280.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/7395\/5133\/files\/images.jpg?v=1700712626","url":"https:\/\/2237d4-2.myshopify.com\/products\/gay-semiotics-hal-fischer","provider":"Offbrand Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}