Reviews
It's rare you leaf through a book of reportage and portraiture that makes you want to know what happened to every single person captured in every single frame. With photographer Daniel Nicoletta's LGBT San Francisco a remarkable, transfixing record of the gay, lesbian, and trans communities from the very early 1970s to today, you're compelled to think just that., LGBT: San Francisco is a joyous, poignant and occasionally sombre record of the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, taken from an extraordinary archive. It is at once a celebration, an exercise in visibility and a timely reminder of how recently the battles for gay rights were won and how fragile those rights remain., Its images portray a milieu of turbulence and exuberance and powerful waves of grassroots political activism., LGBT: San Francisco brings together over 40 years of Nicoletta's attentive work documenting the LGBT civil rights movement from the 1970s to present day., LGBT: San Francisco-a first ever collection of the work Nicoletta has put into capturing the portraits of the community across an always moving and ever-changing socio-political climate., LGBT: San Francisco--a first ever collection of the work Nicoletta has put into capturing the portraits of the community across an always moving and ever-changing socio-political climate., The collection showcases Nicoletta's fine sense of composition, not to mention his sharp editorial eye and evocative visual aesthetic., A self-described 'Richard Avedon of the gay community,' [Nicoletta] turned his lens on all of the Radical Faeries present during the 70s., Its images portray ad milieu of turbulence and exuberance and powerful waves of grassroots political activism., LGBT: San Francisco brings together over 40 years of Nicoletta's attentive workdocumenting the LGBT civil rights movement from the 1970s to present day., Daniel Nicoletta's photobook is the ultimate celebration of LGBTQ pride from history to present day ... an indelible archive of the struggles and successes of the LGBTQ community
