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Pride
PHOTOGRAPHS AFTER STONEWALL
Foreword by HILTON ALS
“McDarrah had an inflamed curiosity, great feelers and an ability to capture liquid moments. He also had hustle.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“[McDarrah’s] nocturnal flash reveals a multitude of subversions.” —Allen Ginsberg
“Inescapable images of a dirtier, mangier, more creatively churning time that is receding into legend.” —James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
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About the Book
PRIDE is back.
Fifty years ago this coming June, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village—an event that marked the coming-out of New York’s gay community and a refusal by gays to accept underground status that was as important in its way as the Montgomery bus boycott was to the civil rights movement. As a direct outcome of Stonewall, gay pride marches were held in 1970 in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York.
The ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in that period, and therefore of a signal moment in gay culture, was the late Fred W. McDarrah, the first staff photographer and first picture editor of the legendary Village Voice. In a recent appreciation of the man and his work in The New York Times, “He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice,” Dwight Garner wrote: “McDarrah had an inflamed curiosity, great feelers and an ability to capture liquid moments. He also had hustle.”
Twenty-five years ago, to mark Stonewall’s 25th anniversary, McDarrah brought out a work that became a classic: Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today. That book has long been out of print. Now, scanning from original negatives, OR Books has lovingly re-set and re-designed the book, newly entitled Pride. This edition also includes a number of photographs not in the original and available nowhere else.
The forthcoming edition of Pride features a new foreword by Hilton Als (the New Yorker critic, who got his first job from McDarrah) and essays by Allen Ginsberg and Jill Johnston. Its portraits of people and setting are unique, but as Hilton Als puts it, McDarrah deserves a lasting place in New York’s alternative history not only for his documentation of a world in transformation, but for his work as “an agent of change himself.”
8″ x 10″ • 240 pages with black and white photographs throughout
Paperback ISBN 978-1-682191-65-1 • E-book 978-1-682191-66-8
About the Author
Fred W. McDarrah is considered one of the essential chroniclers of alternative New York from the days of the Beats through the 1970s. As the first on-staff photographer for the Village Voice, he was one of the first professionals to photograph artists such as Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac. McDarrah received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in 1972. He died in 2007 in Greenwich Village.
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All photographs © Fred W. McDarrah. All rights reserved.
In the Media
- “There is pain—an Act-Up demonstrator getting dragged away by cops in riot gear—but also triumph and joy.” —The Paris Review on Fred W. McDarrah’s PRIDE (7/1/2019)
- “When the Stonewall uprising began 50 years ago, no one knew it would become such a pivotal moment in the gay rights movement. But Fred W. McDarrah was there from the beginning.” —Kyle Almond, CNN, in a write up of PRIDE by Fred W. McDarrah (6/27/2019)
- “In Pride: Photographs After Stonewall, McDarrah, who died in 2007, gives readers an immersive photographic tour of LGBTQ history—the birth of the gay civil rights movement” —Kirkus Reviews on Fred W. McDarrah’s PRIDE (6/26/2019)
- “His photographs showed a maze of streets and ideas snaking their way down to the Hudson River, or the East River, streets filled with so many stories that I still see in black-and-white because of his pictures, which also show stretches of unaccounted-for space, like some movie version of the West.” —Hilton Als on Fred W. McDarrah’s PRIDE for The New Yorker (6/22/2019)
- “The black-and-white images somehow feel more resonant today than ever before” —The New York Times on Fred W. McDarrah’s PRIDE (5/16/2019)
- “He Was the Visual Voice of the Village Voice”: Dwight Garner on FRED W. McDARRAH (10/30/2018)
- “Fred W. McDarrah’s iconic photos are being reissued. You can help bring the book to life.” – PRIDE: PHOTOGRAPHS AFTER STONEWALL in the Advocate (10/30/2018)
- “NYC’s post-Stonewall LGBTQ activism captured in vintage photos.” – PRIDE: PHOTOGRAPHS AFTER STONEWALL in Curbed (10/18/2018)
