Mostly Dead But Still Hot: Tom Bianchi's Pre-AIDS Fire Island Polaroids

“The First Photographs – Memories of Fire Island”. As Bianchi recalls to Out Magazine, his foray into beefcake photography began when a sandy adonis suggested, “You should take me back to your house to make dirty pictures.” The encounter, however impeded by Bianchi’s recovery from hernia surgery (um, gross), propelled Bianchi into a lifetime career of shooting skin for magazines, Big Muscle profiles, and general shower-nozzle masturbation materials. All of the tanned and toned torsos aside, we’re just happy to have such a vivid window into Fire Island… since every time we’ve gone there we’ve been too deep in a blackout to remember anything. Let’s just pretend it was just like this!