Native New Yorker Danny Nicoletta is a San Francisco-based freelance photographer who began his career in the city in 1975 as an assistant to the late Crawford Barton, who was then the staff photographer for The Advocate.
During this time, he also worked in Harvey Milk and Scott Smith's camera store in the heart the Castro District of San Francisco. He assisted in several of Milk's political campaigns. Danny has continued to further Harvey's legacy in the decades since, making his photographic archives available for research and reference.
Since 1989, he has concentrated his photography on studio portraits of the souls who populate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, while continuing to document the journey of the LGBT civil rights movement.
In addition to director Gus Van Sant's Milk, Danny's photographs have been featured in Rob Epstein's Academy Award-winning documentary feature The Times of Harvey Milk and Marc Huestis and Lawrence Helman's documentary Sex Is. In print, his work has appeared in numerous periodicals and a number of books; the latter include author Randy Shilts' The Mayor Of Castro Street; Susan Stryker and Jim Van Buskirk's Gay by the Bay; Harold Evans' The American Century; the exhibition catalogue 'Out at the Library - Celebrating the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center'; and Adrian Brooks' Flight of Angels, about the seminal San Francisco theater group The Angels of Light.
He had a featured exhibition at Mace Gallery as well as a one man retrospective at the corporate headquarters of Levi Strauss & Company in San Francisco. His has been collected by the Wallach Collection of Fine Prints; the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library; the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library; the Schwules Museum in Berlin; and by private archivists.
Danny is a graduate of San Francisco State's Bachelor of Arts program.
