Showing posts with label Fire Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fire Island. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2026

Donald Windham

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This is Donald Windham on Fire Island in 1938.  
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Friday, May 17, 2024

Fire Island

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The last time I did a Fire Island series, it was all PaJaMa photos.  This time I'm branching out. We start with a lovely color shot of T...
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Dune Men I

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Mr. Scumbeast sent me this and the following photo of two men in the Fire Island dunes without knowing where they were taken.  It'wasn...
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Dune Men II

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Here's another from the dunes.  
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1970

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It was 1970 when these men got together on Fire Island.  I was busy getting tear gassed at anti-war protests in Austin at the time, but I wa...
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Amateur

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I love the expression on the guy's face, but I wish the amateur  photographer hadn't cast his shadow across his lovely behind.  
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Bartenders?

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My source said that this photo shows a ritual dance done by the bartenders at a  Cherry Grove hot spot in the 1970s.  Only a few of the patr...

Fever

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This is a still promo shot from a porn movie called Fire Island Fever, or so my source says.  They even made commemorative t-shirts for the ...
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Bling

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The jewelry is overdone, but hey, it was the 70s on Fire Island.  
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Cherry Grove 1977

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These two skinny lads were photographed at Cherry Grove in 1977.  
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1970s?

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Our last shot from Fire Island looks like 1970's to me,but my notes only say  that it came from a retrospective piece on Fire Island bee...
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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Three models

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These three models who had their shorts on when the 1950 photo was made are Jensen Yow,  Jack Fontan, and Bill Harris, all of whom also mode...
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The gang's all here

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This 1950 photo features (l-r) George Platt Lynes,  Glenway Westcott, Jared French and Paul Cadmus.  
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Jared and Paul 1939

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Paul Cadmus was never as eager to pose fully nude as Jared French.  This shot of him in profile on the beach at Fire Island in 1939 is about...
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Jack Fontan

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  One of the PaJaMa group captured this interesting shot of Jack Fontan on Fire Island in 1950.
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Jared and the Lighthouse

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Although PaJaMa was a collective, that was mainly in the arena of photography.  The three members paintings and drawings were so distinctive...
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Margaret Hoening French

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Although her painting work is generally eclipsed by that of her husband Jared French and  PaJaMa partner Paul Cadmus, Margaret Hoening Frenc...
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Donald Windham II

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Here is another view of Donald Windham from 1938.  
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1945 Jared and Paul

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Our final PaJaMa Fire Island image shows Paul Cadmus  pulling in a net with Jared French in it from 1945.  
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Friday, January 26, 2024

Duffy's Hotel Bar

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This photo isn't by Richard Avedon, but is sort of about him.  It was taken in 1946 by Paul Himmel at Duffy's Hotel Bar near Cherry ...
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