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Hal Fischer

Born in 1950, Kansas City, United States

Lives and works in San Francisco, United States

Overview

Hal Fischer is a San Francisco-based artist who works in photography, text and performance. One of the prominent figures of American conceptual photography of the 1970s, his work is documentation and celebration of "the gay universe", which was San Francisco's Castro and Haight-Ashbury districts for Fischer. His series, such as Gay Semiotics and 18th Near Castro Street x 24, are projects consisting of photo texts documenting cruising gay men in the city's streets. The writing over the black and ...Read more

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Hal Fischer
Handkerchiefs,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Street Fashion: Basic Gay,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Signifiers for a Male Response,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Keys,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Earring,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Archetypal Media Image: Western,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Archetypal Media Image: Urbane,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Archetypal Media Image: Leather,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Archetypal Media Image: Classical,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Archetypal Media Image: Natural,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Street Fashion: Jock,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Street Fashion: Forties Trash,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Street Fashion: Hippie,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Street Fashion: Uniform,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Street Fashion: Leather,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Dominance,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Sadism & Masochism,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Submission,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Bondage Device: Meat Hoist,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Bondage Device: Open End Table Rack,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Bondage Device: Cross,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Amyl Nitrite,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Leather Apparal,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Gag Mask,, 1977
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Hal Fischer
Cheap Chic Homo, 1979
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Hal Fischer
Billboard Diptych, 1979, printed 2018, 1979
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Hal Fischer
Civic Center, 1979
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Hal Fischer
Boy-Friends, 1979
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Hal Fischer
18th near Castro Street x 24, 1978, printed 2018, 1978
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Hal Fischer
Gay Semiotics, 1977
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