Who's a Pretty Boy Then?: One Hundred & Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures

Gardiner, James

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 185242513X ISBN 13: 9781852425135

Casa editrice: Serpents Tail, 1996

This work comprises one man's personal and highly idiosyncratic view of gay history since the invention of the camera. Alongside the famous and infamous are images of ordinary gay men, taken at times that only friends and lovers would bother to record.

Recensione:

This sensational book has been banished from my coffee table since any guest who picks it up is totally engrossed for the next few hours? Jonathan Hales in Gay Times Books of the Year ?Thankfully, after several hefty books chronicling the history of homosexuality, somebody at Serpent's Tail decided to do it in pictures and in coffee table format... (List)

The kind of book you buy on impulse, the photos are truly fascinating. But it's the accompanying written history and the stories next to the images that make it a unique record of English gay history. (Sydney Star Observer)

L'autore:

James Gardiner works as a researcher, author and film stylist specialising in popular entertainment and the gay life which was, and is, so often connected with it. He deals in pictorial ephemera relating to these subjects, and has built up a unique photo-archive of old picture postcards from the period.