Men for men: Homoeroticism and Male Homosexuality in the History of Photography, 1840-2006 - Rilegato

Borhan, Pierre

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0224081659 ISBN 13: 9780224081658

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2011

Riassunto

As soon as the invention of photography made it possible to be photographed with one's loved one, early daguerreotypes - small, unique images housed in their cases - were made as tokens of enduring affection or intimacy. Male couples were no exception. Under strict Victorian moral conventions photographs of the male nude were reserved strictly for academic study by artists. It was not until the early twentieth century that the first openly homosexual photographers were able to explore the overtly erotic, and this they did by wrapping their subjects in historical reference by evoking images of ancient Greece or Pre-Raphaelite symbolism. After Alfred Kinsey's revelations of male sexuality, published in 1948, an enormous photographic market emerged for pictures of the muscular male physique. Homoeroticism had entered the mainstream photographic language.

In this ground-breaking book organised by Gilles Mora with a substantial text by Pierre Bohran, the whole history of the genre is charted from its clandestine origins to its open glorification, including the work of photographic masters such as Brassai and August Sander, as well as the notorious underground excursions of Robert Mapplethorpe. We can follow how a homosexual view has now shaped the new iconography of fashion and the public male image.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Pierre Borhan, formerly worked at Le Patromoine Photographique, Paris.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0224081659
• ISBN 13: 9780224081658
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288