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The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe
Allen Ellenzweig
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Paperback. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, 127 duotone halftones. BIC Classification: AJ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 302 x 269 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1156. Male Images from Durieu/ Delacroix to Mapplethorpe. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. 230 pages, 127 duotone halftones. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AJ; JFSK2. Dimension: 302 x 269 x 12. Weight: 1156.
Allen Ellenzweig traces the male gaze upon men as captured by the camera throughout the history of photography. More than one hundred striking, provocative duotone photographs reflect a wide-ranging history of photographic male homoeroticism and the spiritual, physical, and intellectual exchange among men. Accompanying these images is a detailed account of the multiple, complex meanings of the homoerotic that have taken shape from the 1850s to today. Ellenzweig situates each of his artists within their historical context, with chapters devoted to specific photographers and eras. He begins with nineteenth-century French photographer Eugene Durieu and his studies of the male nude, ... Read more
Allen Ellenzweig traces the male gaze upon men as captured by the camera throughout the history of photography. More than one hundred striking, provocative duotone photographs reflect a wide-ranging history of photographic male homoeroticism and the spiritual, physical, and intellectual exchange among men. Accompanying these images is a detailed account of the multiple, complex meanings of the homoerotic that have taken shape from the 1850s to today. Ellenzweig situates each of his artists within their historical context, with chapters devoted to specific photographers and eras. He begins with nineteenth-century French photographer Eugene Durieu and his studies of the male nude, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
230
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
Condition
New
Weight
1156g
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231075374
SKU
V9780231075374
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About Allen Ellenzweig
Allen Ellenzweig is an arts critic and cultural commentator currently researching the life of twentieth-century photographer George Platt Lynes. He is a contributing writer to the Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide and has published in Art in America, PASSION: The Magazine of Paris, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and the online magazine, TABLET. He teaches in the Writing Program at ... Read more
Reviews for The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe
Allen Ellenzweig's long, thorough text is a model of scholarship that succeeds in interweaving the evolution of gay culture and how it related to changes in the culture at large, with art history. Los Angeles Times [A] handsome volume... stimulating and highly readable.Oxford Art JournalOxford Art JournalOxford Art Journal Oxford Art Journal An important contribution to the understanding of contemporary ... Read more