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PUBLICATIONS

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Featured in 10 photography books, several gayzines (BLUE, XY, aK, OG, OBLIVION, ODYSSEY, GRUF and FRONTIERS) and twenty 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 is represented in Paris by Nicole Canet at the Au Bonheur du Jour Gallery located near the Louvre.

• Photos by BIRON: Boys and Drag, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, January 2008. Hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print @ <www.photos-biron.com/books/>.
• Photos by BIRON: Boys and Flowers, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, December 2007. Hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print @ <www.photos-biron.com/books/>.
• Photos by BIRON: The Fetish Fashion of Peter Berlin, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, September 2007. Hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print @ <www.photos-biron.com/books/>.
• Photos by BIRON: Bad Boys of the Marquis de Sade, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, September 2007. Hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print @ <www.photos-biron.com/books/>.
• Photos by BIRON: Jack Sanders, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, September 2007. Hardbound book, limited edition of 100 @ <www.photos-biron.com/books/>.
• Photos by BIRON: Alex Hui, A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, August 2007. Hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print @ <www.photos-biron.com/books/>.
• Photos by BIRON: The Banana (photos of Jowee Arenaz), A Photos by BIRON Publication, San Francisco, July 2007. Hardbound book, limited edition of 100 with 8"x10" signed color print @ <www.photos-biron.com/books/>.
• Photos by BIRON: The Fetish Fashion of Peter Berlin, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), January 2006 @ <www.queer-arts.org/berlin/index000.html/>.
• Peter Berlin: Between Porn and Art, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), December 2005 @ <www.queer-arts.org/berlin/index000.html>.
• Greasetank: Our Very Own Flowers of Evil, Queer Arts Resource (QAR), September 2005 @ <www.queer-arts.org/greasetank/>.
• 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 [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 poped 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.)
• XY magazine (No. 24, April 2000). Color cover of Itay in bondage and seven page portfolio.
• (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, July 1999). Photo of Itay and Murasaki.
• aK magazine (3/99, Zurich, June-July 1999) Full color cover and four page color layout.
• XY magazine (No. 19, May-June 1999). Photo of Joàn sailor boy.
• XY magazine (No. 18, April 1999). Photos of Josh Puckett.
• BLACK BEAUTY, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1999. The best images of 9 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, Dec.-Jan. 1999). 'Versaceboy' layout with Itay.
• PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 3, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of three (3) multi-cultural 18+ sexy male models (Angel, Ba, and Jeff) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images, October 1998.
• PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 2, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of three (3) multi-cultural 18+ sexy male models (Da-Li, Rak, and Scooter) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images, September 1998.
• PHOTOS BY BIRON: RAINBOW BOYS, Vol. 1, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original Biron images of three (3) multi-cultural 18+ sexy male models (Devesh, Leo, and Stephe) in complete sets of GIF and JPEG High-Resolution digital images, September 1998.
• TRIKONE magazine, Vol 13., No. 4 , San Jose, CA, October 1998. (Cover and photo essay on cross-cultural Gay relationships for this 10 year old internationally distributed East-Asian Gay magazine)
• OG [Oriental Guys] magazine, Issue 20, Sydney, July 1997. (Full inside cover advertisement featuring 36 color thumbnail Photos by Biron.)
• ISSEY, Vol. 2, Photo CD-ROM with 300+ original 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+ original 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. (Color cover and 15 page color  photo essay featuring Issey.)
• 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. (Nine photos by Biron includes color cover.)
• "Steamy massage-auction at SF Eagle nets $2,255 for PARADIGM," BAY AREA REPORTER, May 30, 1996, p. 14.
• MIKE- TADZIO OF THE NINETIES, Janssen Verlag, Berlin, 1995. (Hard-cover edition, 64 color Photos by BIRON evocative of the androgynous inacessible golden-haired boy in Thomas Mann's classic gay novella DEATH IN VENICE).
•  GRUF [Great Unshaven Face] magazine , Vol. 1, Issue 4, San Francisco, September 1995. (twenty-five photos by Biron includes color cover and centerfold.)
• "This Do Not Look Past" two-page layout designed by Architecture of Noise [AON] featuring Photos by Biron and the poetry of two young, multicultural models in SAN FRANCISCO FRONTIERS, Vol. 13, Issue 16, San Francisco, December 8, 1994, 36-37.
• ODYSSEY magazine, Vol 3, Issue 17, San Francisco, September 23-October 7, 1994. (First ODYSSEY color cover: Photo by Biron of Dwone Jones.)
• Dwone Jones - MILITARY. 25 Photos by Bron of Dwone Jones taken at the Presidio, San Francisco, CA. Special black/white photocopy edition. Biron, 1994.
• POSITIVELY BLACK & PROUD magazine, published by The Brother's Network, San Francisco, Summer 1994. Under 'Bits' announcing the june-July exhibition at the Eagle . Includes African masked photo of Billy Mann, p. 9.
• "G.A.W.K. TALK: Jon Sugar on Bashings, Rap and Radio," THE SENTINEL, Vol. 21, No. 25, June 23, 1993 (San Francisco) 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 Trsitan 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 pubished 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 the 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.
• G. A. Cavellini, NEMO PROPHETA IN PATRIA . Edizioni Nuovi Stumenti, Brescia, Italy, 1978. This homage to Cavellini includes a photocopy-collage of "Andy Warhol: Homage to Richard Mutt [1975]."
• "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.
•  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. (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 Pink Triangle buttons attached to printed card explaining fact 250,000 Gays wore pink triangle symbol to their death in German Nazi concentration camps; distributed free .)
• 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.)
• THE PHILIP J. BIRON TRISTAN TZARA COLLECTION, (Book catalog, preface, with six original drawings and a poem by Biron ) October 1977 (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
• "Andy Warhol: Homage to Richard Mutt [1975]," LIGHTWORKS (Ann Arbor,Michigan), 1976. First Joint-Assisted-Ready-Made. A 1975 collaboration with Andy Warhol in Ann Arbor.
• "Editorial Comments: Gay Space/Gay Pessimism," GAY SPACE, Vol. 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, Vol. 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 magazine's 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," in RACKHAM LITERARY STUDIES, Vol. 6, 1975 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)41-49.
• · TRISTAN TZARA, POET: DADA/SURREALISM/COMMUNISM, 1975, catalog for Tzara rare book exhibition held at University of Michigan Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June-July 1975.
• · "Interview with Spanish playwright Arrabal," translation from the French of exclusive interview on theater and Garcia Lorca, in MICHIGAN FREE PRESS, March 1975 (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

 

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EDUCATION:

• ABD, French Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1971 Dissertation proposal.
• M.A., French Literature, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1965.
• Certificat de Français Usuel, Sorbonne, University of Paris, 1963.
• B.A., History and Literature, University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1962.
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Summer School, 1959 and 1960.

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