ANONYMOUS, SEX DOLL POLAROIDS
The photo sets feature commercially-available dolls with added genitalia. The maker has set up tableaus and made photographic series that tell stories of straight, gay, and group scenes. We have not definitively dated them, but they are probably from the 1970s...
TOM BIANCHI, FIRE ISLAND PINES POLAROIDS, 1975 - 1983
Growing up in the 1950s, Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago and pick up 25-cent “physique” magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine, he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Island…
APRIL DAWN ALISON, POLAROIDS
April Dawn Alison, the private persona of an Oakland-based commercial photographer known to family, friends, and neighbors as Alan Schaefer (1941–2008). Approximately 9,200 Polaroids were made over the course of more than thirty years, and discovered upon the artist’s death…