BIRON BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Featured in over 40 photography books, several gay zines (BLUE, XY, TETU, aK, OG, OBLIVION, ODYSSEY, GRUF and FRONTIERS) and over 20 exhibitions including the 'The Male Nude' group exhibition with works by Joel-Peter Witkin, Bruce of L.A., and Edward Weston held at the SCOTT NICHOLS GALLERY, San Francisco. BIRON was represented in Paris for 13 years (2005-2018) by Nicole Canet at the Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery, 11 rue Chabanais, where a successful 'Asian Male Nudes' exhibition was held in 2012. For web published and unpublished writings, please go to: http://www.photos-biron.com/words/

San Francisco BayView: National Black Newspaper, "Black and beautiful, out and proud: Why Black queer visibility matters," by Sumiko Saulson," photos and comments by Biron, San Francisco, September 29, 2022, print and digital edition.

Photos by BIRON: KELLY, A Photos by BIRON Production, San Francisco, December 1, 2018. (20) pages 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 42 color images.

Photos by BIRON: STEPHE, A Photos by BIRON Production, San Francisco, December 1, 2018. (20) pages 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 43 color images.

Photos by BIRON: THE MASKED BALL, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, November 24, 2018. (20) pages 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 40 color images.

Photos by BIRON: THE BOY SWEATER, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, November 19, 2018. (20) pages 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 42 color images.

Photos by BIRON: POSITIVE STREET KREW, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, May 2017, (20) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 39 color images.

Photos by BIRON:  SAN FRANCISCO BREAK DANCERS 2013-2016, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2017, (100) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 192 color images.

XTERPIT'S (incorporating The Ephebe), a bi-annual zine for queers and their accomplices, edited by Andrew Morley, and privately published by BlackMole Press (Newcastle Upon Tyne, England), in limited edition of 10 per issue. This No. 1, Winter 2016 issue includes (3) Photos by BIRON and signed, for Biron, on the back cover. Inserted: signed letter on Morley's stationary and an envelope containing a DVD of  Morley's collage artwork including a photo by BIRON.

Photos by BIRON: DREW BACCHAE, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, September 2016, (100) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 148 images.

Photos by BIRON: CHEVY IS MICHAEL JACKSON, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, August 2016, (20) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 30 images.

KALEIDESCOPIC Photos by BIRON, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, April 2016, (50) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 51 kaleidoscopic male images.

Photos by BIRON: MULTICULTURAL MALE BIG PICS!, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, February 2016, (100) page 15x11.5" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. Selection of 50 double page 30x11.5" super-sized photos of multicultural males, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2016, (100) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies.

Photos by BIRON: RICHARD WILLIAMS II, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2016, (100) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 101 photos of model.

Nob HILL GAZETTE, San Francisco, April 2015. A small paid Photos by BIRON ad on the inside back cover. (Only time paid for advertising.) Digital counter indicated no response from this ad. My website was not even visited by their Ad Dept.

Photos by BIRON: JAY DAVIS -DAN OF STEEL REVISITED, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, April 2015, (70) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition,

Photos by BIRON: CHINATOWN DRAGONS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, February 2015, (25) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 35 digital photos of San Francisco Chinatown Dragon and Lion festivities with Introduction.

BIRON-KINROD PHOTOGRAPHICS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2015, (100) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 111 digital collages by Costa Rican artist Kinrod using photos by BIRON, with an Introduction by Biron.

Photos by BIRON: A SUMMER SOLSTICE: Walter Thompson III, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2015, (25) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 29 photos of Walter Thompson III taken at Baker Beach in 2004, with Introduction and poem "Eternal In The Summer Solstice" by Thompson.

Photos by BIRON: MALES, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, October 2014, (100) page 15x11.5" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 182 model photos.

Photos by BIRON: CASTRO GO-GO BOYS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, October 2014, (70) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 73 photos taken at the Castro Street Fair on October 5, 2014, featuring go-go dancer Tajree Wilson.HELP IS ON THE WAY. The

Richmond/Ermet Aids Foundation, Gala AIDS fundraising concert program, Marines' Memorial Theater, San Francisco, August 24, 2014, with Florence Henderson, Carole Cook, Richard Chamberlain and Maureen Mc Govern. The glossy program includes my quarter-page paid ad showing Itay Atias as a Sailor Boy. The ad that I submitted for their next AIDS fundraising concert with another one of my photos was rejected as inappropriate so I cancelled my sponsorship of future events by that organization.  

Photos by BIRON: CALEB REVISITED, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, May 2014, (100) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 102 full-page photos from the three shoots with Caleb Rhodes in 1995-96. Several of the photos from the two 1995 shoots were originally published in Mike -Tadzio of the Nineties (See 1995 entry below.).

Photos by BIRON: DUVALL SAVAGE, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, May 2014, (20) page 6x8.5" softbound book, Pocket Book limited edition, unnumbered copies. 21 photos taken in San Francisco and Palm Springs.

Photos by BIRON: DUVALL & AJ IN THE PALM SPRINGS DESERT, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, March 2014, (20) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 32 photos taken in Palm Springs, CA on November 19 and 20, 2011.

Photos by BIRON: ITAY ATIAS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, May 2014, (100) page 15x11.5" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 127 photos taken in several studio shoots in 1998.

Photos by BIRON: MICHAEL, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, March 2014, (22) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 42 photos taken in several 2010-12 shoots in San Francisco and New York City.

Photos by BIRON: MICKO, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, March 2014, (20) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 39 street break dance and studio photos taken in 2005.

Photos by BIRON: HARDCORE MALE MULTICULTURALISM, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, February 2014, (100) page 15x11.5" hardbound book, number 3 of limited edition of 10 with inserted 11x14" archival print in envelope of an image from the book. Selection of 173 photos.

Photos by BIRON: KENNETH WATTS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2014. (25) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. 53 photos taken in several location shoots in San Francisco.

Photos by BIRON: THE JAPANESE LACQUERED Photos by BIRON COLLAGE BOOK (2008), A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2014. (25) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition, unnumbered copies. Selection of 31collages reproducing unique 2008 4x6" photo pasted collages in Japanese black lacquer scrapbook.

Photos by BIRON: MOUSTAPHA DU SÉNÉGAL, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, August 2013. (70) page 15"x11.5" hardbound book, limited edition of 3 unnumbered copies. 117 studio and street photos of West African sabar and American tap dancer Moustapha Thiam from 2009-2013.

Photos by BIRON: MEN OF LANDS END, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, August 2013. (70) page 15"x11.5" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 2. 275 model photos from 1998 to 2013.

Photos by BIRON: ITAY & MURASAKI, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, April 2013. (100) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed limited edition with inserted 8x10" archival print in envelope of an image from the book. Selection of 175 photos.

Photos by BIRON: SAN FRANCISCO BREAK DANCERS 2004-2013, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, March 2013. (80) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 8. 124 photos of 11 street break dance groups.

Photos by BIRON: TRANSFIXED BY ART, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, February 2013. (100) page 15"x11.5" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 5 with an 11x14" inserted signed archival print. 118 museum and art gallery photos from 1958 to 2013.

Photos by BIRON: EDWARD JACKSON AND MOUSTAPHA: SAN FRANCISCO TAP DANCERS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2013, (40) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed by Edward, Moustapha & Biron, an unnumbered limited edition of 2. 88 photos of the dynamic street tap dance team from 2008-2012 just before they broke up.

Photos by BIRON: Photos by BIRON MULTICULTURAL MALE IMAGES!, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, December 2012, (100) page 15"x11.5" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 2. 275 model photos from 1992 to 2012.

OAKLAND PRIDE POCKET GUIDE, For Your Event Inc., Mill Valley, CA, September 2012. 4.25x5.25" glossy color booklet featuring 5 Photos by BIRON of Oakland Pride 2011 on inside back cover.

THE ARCHIVE, The Journal of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, No. 41, New York, Spring 2012. Features my photo of Richard Williams II as priest (page 10) recently exhibited in the Museum's "Uncensored: Queer Art and the Church" exhibition.

Photos by BIRON: ASIAN MALE NUDES, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, March 2012. (24) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 20.

THANK HEAVEN FOR THE ANGELS by Emile J. Walters, Amsterdam, 2012. Photos by BIRON cover of model Scooter (aka Scott Kemp) draped in white veil (1995).

Photos by BIRON: JOWEE AND MARY LOU – A LOVE STORY, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2009. (42) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed unnumbered edition. Selection of 156 photos of Jowee and Mary Lou. Several copies donated and auctioned off at San Francisco AIDS/LifeCycle fund raisers.

Photos by BIRON: BOYS AND DRAG, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2009. (34) page 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print. Selection of 114 model photos of youthful males dressed up with items usually associated with females such as veils, jewelry and luxurious fabrics.

TÊTU, No. 138, "Archéologue du Désir," (two Photos by BIRON of Itay Atias as sailorboy in France's most commercially successful Gay magazine) October 2008, Paris, pp. 126-127, 131.  

THE CASTRO STREET FAIR OFFICIAL PROGRAM for 10-05-08. 5.5x8.5" format dstributed free with paid full page ad facing the map of the fair. Same photo and layout of Itay as in the GLOSS magazine of September 2008.

 GLOSS free magazine, Year 7, Issue #19, September 19-October 2, 2008. The Folsom Issue. Full-Page free-exchange ad with photo of Itay Atias as a constuction worker in a jockstrap and my 1975 quote: Art only exists beyond the confines of accepted behavior. (That is to say, art is irrelevant unless it serves to redefine reality!)

GLOSS free magazine, Year 7, Issue #4, February 22-March 6, 2008. The Diva Issue. Full-Page free-exchange ad with photo of sailor boy Itay Atias.

Photos by BIRON: BOYS AND FLOWERS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, December 2007. 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print. 44 model photos with flora.

Photos by BIRON: THE FETISH FASHION OF PETER BERLIN, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, September 2007. 11.5x8.75" ( ) page hardbound book, signed limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print. 69 photos of 19 models dressed in Peter Berlin's sexy creations.

Photos by BIRON: BAD BOYS OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, September 2007. 11.5x8.75" (30) page hardbound book with Prefaced by Dr. Fritz Staal (1930-2012), Professor of Philosophy and South Eastern Asian Studies at UC-Berkeley, signed limited edition of 100 with 8x10" signed color print. Selection of 170 S&M photos.

Photos by BIRON: JACK SANDERS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, September 2007. 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 100.

Photos by BIRON: ALEX HUI, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, August 2007. 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, signed limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color prints.

Photos by BIRON: THE BANANA (photos of Jowee Arenaz), A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, July 2007, 11.5x8.75" hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print.

Photos by BIRON: SAILOR BOY: ITAY ATIAS, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, July 2007, 8x6" softbound booklet (26 pages), signed limited edition.

Photos by BIRON: THE FETISH FASHION OF PETER BERLIN, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), January 2006.

PETER BERLIN: BETWEEN ART AND PORN, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), December 2005.

GREASETANK: Our Very Own Flowers of Evil, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), September 2005.

Blue Boys -10 Years of blue Magazine, Sydney, April 2005. Reprint of  BIRON's Itay sailor boy from blue magazine, issue 23.

Eurofærie Newsletter Quarterly «Die Marieposa Zeitung» (MpZ): The Sex Issue, Winter 2003/2004, Vol. 3 No. 1, "The Pursuit of Happiness and the New Morality" and 2 Photos by Biron of Shauntay, pp. 27-28.

Grace Cathedral Report to the Community (San Francisco, [September] 2003). Back cover and inside Photos by BIRON of the San Francisco Grace Cathedral Peace Prayer Service, March 2, 2003.

MAGNET Exhibition photo by BIRON of  Jòan in BAY AREA REPORTER, San Francisco, 3 July 2003, p.39.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES, featured photo by BIRON in each issue from March 2003 to August 2004.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY TIMES, Vol. 24., No. 7, San Francisco, CA, December 24, 2002. (New Years color cover of ITAY with popped bottle of champagne.)

TRIKONE magazine, Vol. 15 , No. 2 , San Jose, CA, April 2000. (Cover and layout of Rob Kumar in this East-Asian Gay magazine.)

NAKED MEN TOO: LIBERATING THE MALE NUDE 1950-2000, Universe Publishing, New York, 2000. 9x11" hardcover edition/First Printing. Signed to Biron with "All my best wishes, June 28, 2000" (scarce fine copy)

XY magazine No. 24, XY Publishing, San Francisco, April 2000. Color cover of Itay in bondage and eight page portfolio.

TRIKONE magazine, LGBT South Asians (San Jose, CA, Vol. 15, No. 2) San Jose, CA, April 2000. Cover photo of my model Robye Kumar (India) for photo-essay 'A Suitable Boy.' Issue also contains an article by Saurabh Bajaj, another of my models from India.

(not only) BLUE magazine, No. 23, Sydney, October 1999. 10 page color layout  and profile "ALL SORTS - Where do you go from Radical? In the case of 70's artist BIRON he's moved from the Xerox to photography, and is using the internet to push the (pornographic) envelope."

XY magazine, No. 20, XY Publishing, San Francisco, July 1999. Full-page b&w Biron photo of Itay and Murasaki.

XY magazine, No. 19, XY Publishing, San Francisco, May-June 1999. b&w Biron photo of Joàn as sailor boy flexing.

XY magazine, No. 18, XY Publishing, San Francisco, March 1999. Full page Biron photo of (page 63) of convicted murderer, Josh Puckett.

VIENNA GAY GUIDE, (2) 4x8.5" single page, flip open, 5-section fan-folded multi-language gay guide to Vienna with map, published by Bruno Gmünder, Berlin, 1999. Biron cover of Brennan Foster on one guide and Itay Atias on a second in exchange for two ads for my photo CD-ROM.

aK magazine 3/99, Zurich, June-July 1999. Biron cover of Itay Atias and four page color layout with Itay, Oz and Stephe.

VIENNA GAY GUIDE, (2) 4x8.5" single page, flip open, 5-section fan-folded multi-language gay guide to Vienna with map, published by Bruno Gmünder, Berlin, 1999. Cover photo of Brennan Foster on one guide and Itay Atias on a second in exchange for two ads for my photo CD-ROMs.

BLACK BEAUTY, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1999. Biron cover photo of Dwone Jones and "the best images of nine international photographers: Biron, Pierre D'Harville, Norman Hatton, Jamal, Kaguta Mbeya, Bruno de Medeiros, Hal Roth, Vesselin Valchev, and Leonard Zett."

XY magazine. No. 15, XY Publishing, San Francisco, December-January 1999). (7) page 'Versaceboy' layout with Biron photos of  Itay Atias.

PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 3, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ Biron photos of  (3) multi-cultural 18+ male models (Angel, Ba, and Jeff) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG digital images, October 1998.

PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 2, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ Biron photos of   (3) multi-cultural 18+ male models (Da-Li, Rak, and Scooter) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG digital images, September 1998.

PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 1, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ Biron photos of   (3) multi-cultural 18+ male models (Devesh, Leo, and Stephe) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG digital images, September 1998.

ROBERT OPEL'S FEY-WAY STUDIOS (1978-79), an online gallery with memorabilia of Robert Opel's gallery and featured artists in this unique SOMA gay art gallery, published on www.photos-biron.com in 1998 and referenced by scholars/documentary filmmakers over the years. Robert Opel is notorious for having streaked the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on live television in the early 1970s, but less is know of his radical art gallery in the gay SOMA district of San Francisco. He collaborated with me on one of my Art Attack projects in 1979 shortly before he was assassinated in his art gallery.

TRIKONE magazine, LGBTQ South Asians (San Jose, CA, Vol 13, No. 4) San Jose, CA, October 1998. Cover and 6 photo essay 'Mix & Match' on cross-cultural Gay relationships featuring Biron photos of Devish and Leo.

NOKTAN GAY, 6x8.25" free monthly Gay magazine published in Lyon, France. This in Sept. 1998 issue reviews the 'Gay Men in 3D Scenes" exhibition at the Spartac Cafe in Lyon featuuring 16 Photos by BIRON transformed in collages created by local digital and French Lyon graphic artist Yannic Hunneau.

OG [Oriental Guys] magazine, Issue 21, Sydney, Spring 1998. Full color inside cover advertisement featuring 36 Biron thumbnails.

OG [Oriental Guys] magazine, Issue 20, Sydney, July 1997. Full color inside cover ad for Issey, Vol 2 CD-ROMs.

ISSEY, Vol. 2, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ Biron images of OG coverboy in two complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images, May 1997.

ISSEY, Vol. 1, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ Biron images of OG coverboy in two complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images,  February 1997.

OG [Oriental Guys] magazine, Issue 19, Sydney, February 1997. Biron cover and 15 page color  photo essay featuring Issey whom I asked to write the Introduction.

THE MALE NUDE IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE EROTIC-PORTRAIT, article published online in 1997.

LE NU MASCULIN DANS LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ET LE PORTRAIT-´EROTIQUE, French translation of previous article published online in 1997.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS AND THE NEW MORALITY, article published online in 1997.

MÄNNER AKT 2 - THE MALE NUDE, Vol. 2, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1996. (120 page anthology of international photographers includes photos by George Platt Lynes, Tom Bianchi, Dean Keefer, Roy Blakey, and Biron).

INTERNATIONAL MR. DRUMMER 1996, Program for competition held in San Francisco in September 1996. Photo of Jack Stice.

OBLIVION magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 4, San Francisco, May 16-June 17, 1996. Biron color cover and (9) other model photos.) "Steamy massage-auction at SF Eagle nets $2,255 for PARADIGM," BAY AREA REPORTER, May 30, 1996, p. 14.

MAGNUS magazine, No. 1, January 1996, Berlin, Germany. Page 37 features a full-page ad by Janssen Verlage that includes my recently published MIKE TADZIO OF THE NINETIES photo book with this comment I had not authorized: "Tadzio,ein americanischer 'Dreamboy'von Jahren posiert fur die Kamera eines Masterphotografen." Caleb was 18, not 16, when these photos were taken. I had proof of age on file in compliance with US federal law which I had provided the publisher along with the photos, This comment unfortunately held up the distribution of the book in the US by the German publisher's US distributor who required me to forward both the model's California ID and his model release form, So, after a considerable delay, the book was finally released in the US.

MIKE TADZIO OF THE NINETIES, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1995. (Hard-cover edition, 64 Biron color photos evocative of the androgynous inaccessible golden-haired boy in Thomas Mann's classic gay novella DEATH IN VENICE.

OG [Oriental Guys] magazine, Issue 16, Sydney, 1995. (9) photo Biron essay "An Exotic Rainbow Pageent", featuring Asian prticipants at the San Francisco Civic Center Pride 1995 celebration and not the 1995 San Francisco Mr. Pacific Friends Pageant – won by my Thai model Oz – as stated in the magazine.

GRUF [Great Unshaven Faces] magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 4, San Francisco, September 1995. (25) Biron photos includiing cover and centerfold.

ODYSSEY free magazine, Vol 3, Issue 17, San Francisco, September 23-October 7, 1994. Biron cover of Dwone Jones in Black leather. First ODYSSEY color cover.

"Dwone Jones by Biron" (3) photo layout with biography of model in SAN FRANCISCO FRONTIERS, Vol. 13, Issue 10, San Francisco, September 15, 1994, 39.

"This Do Not Look Past" two-page layout designed by Architecture of Noise [AON] featuring Photos by Biron and the poetry of  Loco and Anthony Jackson, two of Biron's multicultural models, in SAN FRANCISCO FRONTIERS, Vol. 13, Issue 16, San Francisco, December 8, 1994, 36-37.

Dwone Jones - MILITARY. (25) Biron photos of Dwone Jones taken at the Presidio, San Francisco, 1994. b&w photocopy edition.

POSITIVELY BLACK & PROUD magazine, Vol,1 Issue 5, The Brother's Network, San Francisco, Summer 1994. Under 'Bits' announcing the June-July exhibition at the Eagle Gay bar. Includes includes inside cover photo of 5-horn adrogenousBambara maskfrom Male, West Africa, worn by Billy Mann and recently exhibited at the Scott Nichols gallery.

"G.A.W.K. TALK: Jon Sugar on Bashings, Rap and Radio," THE SENTINEL, Vol. 21, No. 25, San Francisco. June 23, 1993, 88, 92.

BAY AREA RESOURCES FOR TIBETANS, published by the Bay Area Friends of Tibet, San Francisco, July 1993. Detailed twelve page manual with Introduction.

"The Tibetan Resettlement Project in the Bay Area," DHARMA WHEEL, Spring 1993, (Buddhist Churches of America, San Francisco).

DADA, TOME I et II. Réimprression et dossier critique de la la revue publiée de 1917 à 1922 par Tristan Tzara. Presenté par Michel Sanouillet et Dominique Baudoin. Centre du XXe siècle, Nice, France, 1976 and 1983, respectively. Incorporates my critical notes on Tzrara's DADA magazine, published in Zurich, including my discovery of dual French and German editions of DADA 3 (Tome II, pp. 30-31).

·"Art Only Exists Beyond the Confines of Accepted Behavior," Crime Contest conceptual piece by Biron, reproduced by Jerry Dreva, in HIGH PERFORMANCE, Vol. 3, No.1, Spring 1980 (Los Angeles) 26.

TRISTAN TZARA: DADA AND OTHER PROJECTS, 1980. Catalog for Tzara book exhibition held at Main Library, University of California at Berkeley, May-June 1980.

LIGHTWORKS ENVELOPE SHOW - An Exhibition Catalog of Correspondence Art (see Exhibitions above), Lightworks Magazine, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1979.

Dada Artifacts, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, 1978. Scholarly articles on the Dada movement and the catalog of the Museum's Dada exhibition from March 31-May 7, 1978. Page 46 features a photo of item #9 from the Philip J. Biron Tzara Collection. As a recently published Dada scholar, I chaired a session of the May 1978 Dada Conference held at the University of Iowa in conjunction with this exhibition. Michel Sanouillet, author of the breakthrough study Dada in Paris, participated. for more information: . This was my last involvement with academia, shortly before I left Ann Arbor, after nine years at the University of Michigan and relocated to San Francisco on May 23, 1978.

NEMO PROPHETA IN PATRIA, G. A. Cavellini, Edizioni Nuovi Stumenti, Brescia, Italy, 1978. This homage to Cavellini includes a photocopy-collage of  my "Andy Warhol: Homage to Richard Mutt [1975]."

Dada Artifacts, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, 1978. Scholarly articles on the Dada movement and the catalog of the Museum's Dada exhibition from March 31-May 7, 1978. Page 46 features a photo of item #9 from the Philip J. Biron Tzara Collection. As a recently published Dada scholar, I chaired a session of the May1978 Dada Conference held at the University of Iowa in conjunction with this exhibition. Michel Sanouillet, author of the breakthrough study Dada in Paris, participated. More information.This was my last involvement with academia, shortly before I left Ann Arbor, after nine years at the University of Michigan and relocated to San Francisco on May 23, 1978.

Documentation of conceptual piece by Ben Vautier at Fluxus Concert held at the Corroboree Gallery of New Concepts at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 1, 1978, in CHEAP TRASH, One, Spring 1978 (Cheap Trash Productions, Ann Arbor,) 11.B1, B4 & 15, respectively.

"The Vogel Show Leftovers," documentation on conceptual piece by Biron, exhibited at Ann Arbor's Café Ladyfingers, November 11-12, 1977 in CHEAP TRASH, One, Spring 1978 (Cheap Trash Productions, Ann Arbor, Michigan) 4-5.

"Ann Arbor Gays," The Ann Arbor News, Comprehensive two-part article co-authored with Laura Sky Brown, traces ten years (1969-78) of Ann Arbor's Lesbian/Gay history.

1977 LESBIAN AND GAY MALE DIRECTORY. First comprehensive local directory published by Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1977- 2,000 copies, distributed free.

THE PINK TRIANGLE, published by The Pink Triangle Project, Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1977. (2,000 free Pink Triangle buttons attached to printed card explaining fact 250,000 Gays wore pink triangle symbol to their death in German Nazi concentration camps.)

YOUTH SURVIVAL GUIDE published by E.A.S.Y.-- Easy Access to Services for Youth, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Fall 1977. (Reference brochure - including Gay referrals - 4,000 copies distributed free to all public high school students in Ann Arbor, Michigan.)

"Local gays: A lively community," with Laura Sky Brown, The Michigan Daily, Ann Arbor, MI, September 8, 1977, pp. 8 & 1.

THE PHILIP J. BIRON TRISTAN TZARA COLLECTION, Book catalog, preface, with six original drawings and a poem by Biron, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1977.

heute Kunst -Internationale Kunstzeitschriff, No. 19, Giancarios Politiss Editore, Düsseldorf, Germany, June-July 1977. 10.25x13" magazine with cover photos of Italian artist Cavelini. This copy was converted by Biron in 1977 into an R. Mutt collage.

ANSWERED PRAYERS From False Gods, Midwest Gay Academic Journal (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Spring 1977). Review of Truman Capote's unfinished novel ANSWERED PRAYERS based on large excerpts published in several issues of ESQUIRE magazine.

"Andy Warhol: Homage to Richard Mutt [1975]," LIGHTWORKS (Ann Arbor, Michigan, December-January 1977). Announcement of the first Joint-Assisted-Ready-Made – a Biron/Andy Warhol collaboration signed by Warhol , Ann Arbor, MI, 1975.(The framed objet hangs in my Sanf Francisco apartment and has to date neither been been exhibited nor published.

"Editorial Comments: Gay Space/Gay Pessimism," GAY SPACE, Vow. 1, No.1, July 16, 1976, Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2.

"Editorial Space: Don't Spread it Around," (article on new Ann Arbor VD Clinic) GAY SPACE, Vow. 1, No. 2, July 30, 1976 (Gay Community Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2.

"The ADVOCATE: Capitalist Manifesto," GAY SUNSHINE, No. 28, Spring 1976 (Gay Sunshine Press, San Francisco) 22-24. Critical analysis: quotes from secret Chicago conference documents revealing the ADVOCATE editor's (David B. Goodstein) strategy to isolate leftist elements within the gay community and establish a clearly defined gay capitalist market.

"The Secret French and German Editions of Tristan Tzara's Dada 3," Rackham Literary Studies, Vol. 6, 1975 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) 35-40.

"Philippe Soupault's Early Contact with Zurich Dada: A Gracious Butterfly Flirting with Dada in Les Champs Magnétiques," Rackham Literary Studies, Vol. 6, 1975 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 41-49.

TRISTAN TZARA, POET: DADA/SURREALISM/COMMUNISM, 1975, catalog for Tristan Tzara Biron book collection exhibition held at University of Michigan Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June-July 1975.

MICHIGAN FREE PRESS, March 1975 (Ann Arbor, Michigan). "Interview with Spanish playwright Arrabal," translation from the French of exclusive interview on the theater and Garcia Lorca.

 

BOOKS THAT REFERENCE BIRON:

ARCHIVING AN EPIDEMIC – Art, AIDS and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde, Rob Hernandez, New York University Press, NY, 2019. Quoted on Los Angeles Queer Chicano artist Teddy Sandoval (page 142).

ONE-DIMENSIONAL QUEER, Roderick A. Ferguson, Polity Press, Medford, MA, 2019. 168 page softbound edition. Quotes my 1976 GAY SUNSHINE article "The Advocate: Capitalist Manifesto" (pages 61-64).

THE STORY OF SEXUAL IDENTITY - Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course, Edited by Phillip L. Hammack and Bertram J. Cohler, Foreward by Ken Plummer, Oxford University Press, New York, 2009. 475 page hardcover study quotes my 1976 GAY SUNSHINE article "The Advocate: Capitalist Manifesto" (p. 38).

 

RECENT ARTICLE THAT REFERENCE BIRON: 

"The True Story Of The Oscar Streaker," by Brent Cox in The Awl,  February 21, 2012. Quotes extensively from my online Fey-Way Studios gallery @ www.photos-biron.com/fey-way/   

 

EDUCATION:

ABD, French Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971 Dissertation proposal: Sense Behind Dada Nonsense

M.A., French Literature, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1966.

Certificat de Français Usuel, Sorbonne, University of Paris, 1964.

B.A., History and Literature, University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1963.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Summer School, 1959 and 1960.