Biker Bar
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.33 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0982369395 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 52 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When Bars were More than Just Bars "Biker Bar." Subtitled "Bikes Beer and Boys," its a playfully illustrated history of how men's biker and leather bars have changed through the ages."On back streets and down alleyways. In neighborhoods many feared to tread. Often behind doors marked so only those in the know could open them. That's where you would find them: lone wolves, strangers, friends, and bikers, banding together with the smoke, the jukebox, and the beer at their bars. Join these men, comrades in arms, as they take us on a leather-jacketed ride. A unique and fascinating pictorial evolution of the Leather Bar in miniature Donovan Brown BIKER BAR is innovative and original in both subject and technique. Its subject is the creation of the modern gay leather bar, from its beginnings in the post-World War II years through its focusing on the motorcycle as its central identifying symbol to the modern split into separate straight and gay incarnations. Its technique is to create a world of men and their bikes by using action figures restyled and posed in intricate miniature environments that illustrate the illuminating prose. Himself a leatherman of many . Impressive Artisanship Some reviewers have had unrealistic expectations of this book and were disappointed. However, for what it is, this book is GREAT! An incredible amount of artisanship was applied in the making of these images, that involve dressing and posing figures in specially-created backgrounds—along with Photoshopping some details. The text is personal, and explains the genesis of the project. The book is a manufactured visual remembrance of experiences from past times. The images are not strictly representative, but are m
What had once been hidden was now proudly proclaimed. The now-standard black leather motorcycle jacket was a luxury. Thom was only 19 when he joined his first group of bikers, back in 1951 in Los Angeles. And for the biker, there is always the open road.. When Thom moved back to New York a couple of years later, he found dozens of biker bars around Manhattan. In BIKER BAR he shares his memories of how the post-WWII biker bar morphed into the modern leather bar, profusely illustrated with full-color photos of 12-inch action figures outfitted as bar patrons. The leather/rubber/fetish tribe will no doubt create new ways for kinky guys to hang out together. And the patrons' favored style had changed from the old casual, scruffy mix to gleaming, polished cap-to-toe leather. In the 1950s bikers mostly wore denim mixed with Army fatigues and brown leather bomber jack