Alvin Baltrop

**Alvin Baltrop** (Amụrụ n'ọnwa Dịsemba 11, afọ 1948 – rụọ Febụwarị 1, afọ 2004) bụ onye America na-ese foto. Ọrụ Baltrop lekwasịrị anya na ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri Hudson River mebiri emebi na ụmụ nwoke na-edina ụdị onwe ha n'oge 1970s na 1980s tupu nsogbu AIDS.

## Mmalite ndụ
A mụrụ Baltrop n'afọ 1948 na Bronx. Ọ chọpụtara ịhụnanya ya maka foto na ụlọ akwụkwọ sekọndrị, na-amụta usoro dị iche iche site n'aka ndị okenye na-ese foto na agbata obi ya ma na-akụziri onwe ya ịzụlite foto.

## Ọrụ
Baltrop debara aha ya na ndị agha mmiri dị ka onye na-agwọ ọrịa n'oge Agha Vietnam wee gaa n'ihu na-ese foto, ọkachasị nke ndị enyi ya na-akpali agụụ mmekọahụ. O wuru ụlọ nyocha nke ya na-emepe emepe na ebe a na-arịa ọrịa, na-eji trays ọgwụ maka ịmepụta trays. Mgbe oge ya gasịrị na Navy, Baltrop rụrụ ọrụ dị iche iche dị ka onye na-ere ahịa n'okporo ámá, onye na-emepụta ọla, onye na-ebi akwụkwọ, na onye ọkwọ ụgbọ ala. N'afọ 1973, Baltrop debara aha na School of Visual Arts, ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ ruo afọ 1975. N'ihi na ọ chọrọ itinyekwu oge na-ese foto na ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri Hudson River, ọ kwụsịrị ọrụ ya dị ka onye ọkwọ ụgbọ ala iji bụrụ onye na-arụ ọrụ onwe ya. Ọ na-adọba ụgbọala ya n'ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri ruo ọtụtụ ụbọchị n'otu oge, na-ebi n'ime ụgbọ ala ya iji were foto.

Site n'afọ 1975 ruo afọ 1986, Baltrop sere foto nke ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri West Side, ebe ọ bụ onye ama ama nke obodo ahụ. Baltrop maara onye ọ bụla o sere foto, ndị mmadụ na-ewepụta onwe ha ka ese ha foto. Ụmụ nwoke na ụmụ nwoke na-eto eto nọ n'ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri na-ekwukarị banyere agụụ mmekọahụ ha, mmekọrịta ha na ezinụlọ ha, ọnọdụ ụlọ ha, na ọrụ ha. Ụgbọ mmiri ndị ahụ hụrụ njem, mmekọahụ a na-amaghị aha, na ntinye aka nka mgbe ụfọdụ. Foto ya abụghị naanị na ọ na-ejide àgwà mmadụ, kamakwa ọdịdị nke ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri ndị mebiri emebi.

Baltrop weghaara ebe ndị na-eme njem nwoke na nwanyị na omenala mkpakọrịta nke dị na New York City tupu ọrịa AIDS. Ọrụ ndụ ya bụ foto nke nwoke idina nwoke, onye Afrịka-Amerịka, na akụkọ ihe mere eme nke New York City.

Baltrop gbalịsiri ike ịbanye n'ụwa nka, na-eche ịkpa ókè agbụrụ ihu site na ụwa nka ndị ọcha. Ndị nlekọta nwoke na nwanyị na-ajụkarị ọrụ ya, bo ya ebubo na o zuru ya, ma ọ bụ zuo ọrụ ya n'onwe ha.

Ná ngwụsị afọ ndị 1990, onye na-ese ihe na New York City bụ John Drury, onye maara Baltrop site na agbata obi ha - Drury bi na Third Street ya na nwunye ya, na Baltrop na Second Street, na ala Manhattan - enyi onye na-ese ihe ma mata ikike pụrụ iche nke onye na-ese foto ahụ, na-ahọpụta ya maka onyinye Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award for the Arts. Baltrop nwere ihe ngosi ole na ole na ndụ ya; ọrụ ya nwetara ama mba ụwa naanị mgbe ọ nwụsịrị.

## Ihe ngosi

* Alvin Baltrop, Glines (1977)
* *Sexy* and the City, Yossi Milo Gallery, Chelsea, New York City, New York (2009)
* Ifuru Nwụrụ Anwụ, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2010)
* *N'ileghachi anya azụ*: The Fifth White Columns Annual, White Columns, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York (2010)
* Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2010)
* Queer Pier 40 Years: (re)Envisioning LGBTIQ Stories, FIERCE, New York City (2010)
* "Ashes from a Flame" gosipụtara na Homomuseum: Heroes and Monuments ngosi (2005)
* Alvin Baltrop: Ọrụ ahọpụtara, The Watermill Center, Watermill, New York (2011)
* *N'ileghachi anya azụ -* The 6th White Columns Annual, White Columns, Greenwich Village, New York City, New York (2011)
* Ọpụpụ ọ bụla bụ ụzọ mbata: Afọ iri atọ nke Ọpụpụ Art, Ọpụpụ Art, Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York (2012)
* Lost and Found: Anonymous Photography in Reflection, Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles, California (2012)
* Echiche 179: Alvin Baltrop: Nrọ n'ime Glass, Zilkha Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas (2012)
* Alvin Baltrop & Gordon Matta-Clark: The Piers from Here, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England (2014)
* America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, USA, New York (2015)
* *Douglas Crimp*: Before Pictures, Buchholz, New York City, New York (2015)
* *Greater New York*, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2015)
* Wild Noise: Artwork from the Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York City, New York (2015)
* Mmasị mmadụ: Ihe osise sitere na Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York (2016)
* Alvin Baltrop: Na Hudson River Piers, nke Douglas Crimp họpụtara, Galerie Buchholz New York (2017)
* The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York (2019)

## Nchịkọta
A na-arụ ọrụ Baltrop na nchịkọta na-adịgide adịgide ndị a:

* Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: mbipụta anọ (dịka nke June 2021)