Stanley Stellar
{{Short description|American photographer}}
Stanley Stellar (born 1945){{cite web|access-date=2022-09-05|title=Stanley Stellar - MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/6843|website=The Museum of Modern Art}} is an American photographer, living in Manhattan, who has photographed gay men in the West Village there since 1976.{{cite web|access-date=2022-09-05|title=Bio|url=https://www.stellarnyc.com/bio|website=stellarnyc.com}}{{cite web|first1=Miss|last1=Rosen|access-date=2022-09-05|title=Cruising at Christopher Street Pier: New York's fabled sex playground of the 70s|url=https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/wxdg8x/70s-new-york-queer-cruising-photos|website=I-D}} His work is included in the collection of Harvard Art Museums,{{cite web|access-date=2022-09-05|title=Harvard Art Museums|url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/34041|website=harvardartmuseums.org}} as well as in the Artifacts at the End of a Decade portfolio, a copy of which is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Life and work
Stellar was born in New York City, growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s.{{cite web|access-date=2022-09-05|title=Photos of the free, fun spirit of LGBTQ+ New York in the 1970s|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/53586/1/new-york-lgbtq-scene-1970s-photos-artifacts-end-of-decade-stanley-stellar|date=26 July 2021|website=Dazed}} He studied graphic design and photography at Parsons School of Design in New York City then began working as art director at Art Direction, an advertising agency.
In 1976, Stellar purchased a professional camera and began photographing the gay scene on the streets of Manhattan's West Village including Christopher Street, and on the Christopher Street Pier where men cruised for sex.
Publications
=Books of work by Stellar=
- The Beauty of All Men, Photographs 1976–2011. All Saints, 2011. {{ISBN|9783900361044}}.
- Into the Light: Photographs of the NYC Gay Pride Day from the 70s Till Today. Bruno Gmuender, 2018. {{ISBN|978-3959852753}}.
Collections
Stellar's work is held in the following permanent collections:
- Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1 print (as of 5 September 2022)
- Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 photograph, part of Artifacts at the End of a Decade (as of 5 September 2022)
Films
- Stanley Stellar: Here For This Reason (2019) – Short Stories (HuffPost and RYOT Films); short film written and directed by Eric Leven{{cite web|access-date=2022-09-05|title=How One Man's 'Innocent Picture Snapping' Became A Massive Archive Of Gay Life In New York|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stanley-stellar-gay-new-york_n_5d0939b0e4b0e560b70a68fd|date=19 June 2019|website=HuffPost}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.stellarnyc.com}}
- "[https://vimeo.com/405213955 Artifacts at the End of a Decade ‘Stanley Stellar’ (Dazed Digital Cut)]" (4 minute video at Vimeo)
- [https://www.kappkapp.com/artists/stanley-stellar Stellar's profile at Kapp Kapp, New York]
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Category:21st-century American photographers
Category:20th-century American photographers
Category:American LGBTQ photographers
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