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The Homoerotic Photograph. Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe
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The Homoerotic Photograph. Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe Rilegato tela (cloth) - 1992

by ELLENZWEIG, Ellen

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Gathered here are 127 beautiful and provocative duotone photographs that reflect the wide-ranging history of male homoeroticism as revealed by the camera--amply suggesting spiritual, physical, and intellectual exchange between men. To accompany these images, Ellenzweig offers a detailed account of the multiple and complex meanings of the homoerotic, from the 1850s to today.

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New York: Columbia University Press, , 1992. Rilegato tela (cloth). Molto buono (Very Good). Between Men - Between Women. Lesbian and Gay Studies. Introduzione di George Stambolian. Testo di Ellen Ellenzweig. 127 fotografie in bianco e nero di Herb Ritts, Eugene Durieu, Donald Moffert, Minor White, Bruce Weber, Arthur Tress, Brassai, Robert Mapplethorpe et al. Biografie dei fotografi. 4to (cm 31 x27,5). pp. 232. Molto buono (Very Good). Manca la sovraccoperta (Dustjacket is missing). Prima edizione (First Edition). 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 Eugène Durieu and his studies of the male nude, created under the direction of painter Eugène Delacroix. He then takes readers all the way through the rebellious 1960s and the disputes surrounding Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial retrospective in 1989 and 1990. Showing that homoeroticism in photography is anything but a contemporary invention, Ellenzweig unites photographers across the stylistic spectrum within a theme that came to inspire a host of larger spiritual, physical, and intellectual ideals. Allen Ellenzweig traccia la storia dello sguardo maschile sugli uomini così come è stato catturato dalla macchina fotografica nel corso della storia della fotografia. Più di cento fotografie in duotone, suggestive e provocatorie, riflettono un'ampia storia dell'omoerotismo fotografico maschile e dello scambio spirituale, fisico e intellettuale tra gli uomini. Accompagnano queste immagini un resoconto dettagliato dei molteplici e complessi significati dell'omoerotismo che hanno preso forma dagli anni Cinquanta del XIX secolo ad oggi. Ellenzweig colloca ciascuno dei suoi artisti nel loro contesto storico, con capitoli dedicati a fotografi ed epoche specifiche. Inizia con il fotografo francese del XIX secolo Eugène Durieu e i suoi studi sul nudo maschile, realizzati sotto la direzione del pittore Eugène Delacroix. Poi accompagna il lettore attraverso i ribelli anni Sessanta e le controversie che circondano la controversa retrospettiva di Robert Mapplethorpe nel 1989 e nel 1990. Dimostrando che l'omoerotismo in fotografia è tutt'altro che un'invenzione contemporanea, Ellenzweig unisce i fotografi di tutto lo spettro stilistico all'interno di un tema che ha ispirato una serie di ideali spirituali, fisici e intellettuali più ampi.
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  • Title The Homoerotic Photograph. Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe
  • Author ELLENZWEIG, Ellen
  • Binding Rilegato tela (cloth)
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition Used - Molto buono (Very Good)
  • Pages 230
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, , New York
  • Date 1992
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 222241
  • ISBN 9780231075374 / 0231075375
  • Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.8 x 10.5 x 0.4 in (29.97 x 26.67 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
  • Dewey Decimal Code 778.928

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In The Homoerotic Photograph, Allen Ellenzweig reminds us that photography has persistently captured the male gaze upon other men. Gathered here are 127 beautiful and provocative duotone photographs that reflect the wide-ranging history of male homoeroticism as revealed by the camera - amply suggesting spiritual, physical, and intellectual exchange between men. To accompany these images, Ellenzweig offers a detailed account of the multiple and complex meanings of the homoerotic, from the 1850s to today. Each artist is placed in historical context, with chapters devoted to specific photographers and eras, beginning with the male nude studies created by nineteenth-century French photographer Eugene Durieu under the direction of painter Eugene Delacroix. Later in the century photographers such as Thomas Eakins, Frank Sutcliffe, and F. Holland Day portrayed classical ideals through images of male beauty and bonding, while the work of early twentieth-century photographers - Brassai, for example - showed the influences of the homosexual subculture and of Freud on photography. Modernists and Surrealists, represented by photographers George Platt Lynes and Herbert List, captured the artistic spirit of the late twenties and thirties. Later, the kinship created by war and the conflicting standards imposed by the post-World War II era were reflected in Minor White's spiritual artistry. Out of the rebellious sixties came the contemporary camera work of Arthur Tress, Duane Michals, and Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as the ongoing photographic studies of such artists as George Dureau and Chantal Regnault. Their engaging works range from exposes of men experiencing the whole gamut of human emotions -love, fear, sexual arousal, loneliness, hope - to portraits of public and private human relations, to detached explorations of erotic fantasies and primal passions. Against the backdrop of the disputes surrounding Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial retrospective in 1989 and 1990, Allen Ellenzweig demonstrates that the homoerotic in photography is hardly a contemporary invention. Current photographers across the stylistic spectrum share a common heritage of homoeroticism in photography, which serves to inspire spiritual, physical, and intellectual ideals.

About the author

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 the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York.


George Stambolian (1938-1991) was professor of French at Wellesley University and editor of Twentieth Century French Fiction: Essays for Germaine Bree and, with Elaine Marks, Homosexualities and French Literature: Cultural Contexts/Critical Texts.

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