This exhibit sounds fantastic, and Ill definately be attending.
October 17th 18th, and 21st-
The Body Archive New York City is Proud to Present:
WEST STREET: Photos of the night life on West Street, In the old Meat Packing District.
Photos by Efrain John Gonzalez
Place : THE BODY ARCHIVE GALLERY
#9 Ninth Ave, between 13th street and little west 12th, on the west side of Ninth Ave, second floor
On October 17th, 18th, and the 21st, I will be giving an exhibit of my photos, rare and raw images, showing the night life under the old West Side Highway, from 1975, up to the 1990’s. B&W photos that record the transgender life along the West Village/meat packing district of New York City, at a time when the night life was wild and the clubs were “anything goes”. This was Hand held night photography with TRI_X film of the real people of the street and their culture; working and surviving on the dark streets of an industrial wasteland, using their transgender beauty to earn the cash to survive in New York City. An incredible photographic documentary of the people and street life in a time long gone.
The BODY ARCHIVE is located in the old Meatpacking district, surviving the gentrification that has changed a dark, run down industrial block, into a hip urbanized club-land, filled with restaurants, luxury Hotels and fashionable boutiques. The photos you will see are a time capsule to the past life that once thrived in the deserted night time streets
Please come and see my work, exhibited on the very street where it was created.
Sat:4-10pm Sun:2-7pm Wed:5-9
Contact: gonzoonfirst@erols.com
Thank you,
Efrain John Gonzalez
