Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines

Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines: Polaroids 1975-1983 Courtesy of DamianiUnbridled hedonism, superlative beauty, endless sunshine. This is the world of Tom Bianchi’s Fire Island Pines, a barrier island off the coast of Long Island, New York that has been a holiday haven for the gay community since the sixties. Every summer, muscle-bound young men make the trip to this sliver of beach and boardwalk to experience parties, drugs, and sexual freedoms otherwise unknown, and between 1975 an...