Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop

This book chronicles the life and work of photographer Alvin Baltrop, who obsessively documented the alternative world of New York City's piers in the 1970s and '80s. It features many never-before-seen photographs, capturing cruisers, sun-bathers, and friends in the period between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS epidemic. Baltrop's dedication to his art led him to live out of a van at the piers, driven by a desire to preserve the 'frightening, mad, unbelievable, violent, and beautiful things' he witnessed.