Š Alvin Baltrop, The Piers (male figure by window), 1975-1986, Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust and Third Streaming, New York
the river. Underwriting his aesthetics was an increasingly bold articulation of not only homoeroticism, but also an incredible sensitivity toward the codes developed by racial and sexual minorities, transgendered persons and youth inhabiting spaces like the west side piers. How remarkably attractive is Baltrop’s photograph of a young man, dressed only in underpants, 48