#fredwmcdarrah

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Diane Arbus 

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Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Super Band, Kenny's Castaways, New York, October, 1973, Fred W. McDarrah, 1973 (printed 2014), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Size: image: 9 1/2 x 6 3/8" (24.1 x 16.2 cm); sheet: 10 1/16 x 8 1/8" (25.6 x 20.7 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/194368

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Photo: Stonewall Inn, 1969, by the ultimate chronicler of New York’s downtown scene in that period,  Fred W McDarrah,   (c) the Estate of Fred W McDarrah.

This photo’s iIncluded in McDarrah’s photographic essay book  PRIDE: photographs after Stonewall, recently back in print from OR books, with forwards by Hilton Als and Allen Ginsberg. From Allen’s forward:

“Think of the historic importance of coming out of the closet!  Stonewall’s cry echoed round the world! Spiritual liberation meant gay liberation also, the liberation of individual veracity against hypocrisies of church and state and age-old social sadism. A revelation of actuality in midst of mental hallucination an emotional repression. Truth against “lies age-old, age-thick”

What was the fix to begin with? Legendary gay bars owned by organized crime paid off the New York police, and if they didn’t they were closed down. Something went wrong with the payoffs at Stonewall Inn. So the customary repression of gay social life was motiv’d by hypercritical greed and sadism. As the sign says GAY PROHIBITION CORRUPTS COPS AND FEEDS MAFIA”

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Shadow Painting, performed during 8th Annual New York Avant Garde-Festival, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, November 19, 1971, Fred W. McDarrah, 1971 (printed 2014), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Size: image: 9 1/2 x 6 5/16" (24.1 x 16.1 cm); sheet: 10 1/16 x 8 1/8" (25.6 x 20.6 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/192524

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Sunrise Event, performed during Fourth Avant Garde Festival, Central Park, New York, September 9, 1966, Fred W. McDarrah, 1966 (printed 2014), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Size: image: 9 1/2 x 6 5/16" (24.1 x 16 cm); sheet: 10 1/16 x 8 1/8" (25.6 x 20.6 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/192517

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Contact sheet of John Cage's class at the New School for Social Research, New York, Fred W. McDarrah, 1959, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Size: 10 x 8" (25.4 x 20.3 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/173016

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18 Happenings in 6 Parts, Reuben Gallery, New York, October 1959, Fred W. McDarrah, 1959, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Size: composition: 7 3/8 × 7 3/8" (18.8 × 18.8 cm); sheet: 10 × 8" (25.4 × 20.3 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/173013

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Sky Piece for Jesus Christ, performed during Fluxorchestra at Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, September 25, 1965, Fred W. McDarrah, 1965 (printed 2014), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Size: image: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2" (15.9 x 24.1 cm); sheet: 8 1/16 x 10 1/8" (20.5 x 25.7 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/192385