ARTIST

Alvin Baltrop (1955-2004)

A nude figure stands in a ballet pose near a window in a decaying room with peeling walls and debris on the floor.
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A Bronx-born, working-class Black artist whose work was often sexually explicit, Alvin Baltrop was never welcomed by the art-world establishment. His photographs focused on the dilapidated Hudson River piers and gay men in New York during the 1970s and 1980s prior to the AIDS epidemic.