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"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 Book Review"
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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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AS EARLY AS 1850, a mere decade after Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre patented his invention of photography, a law was passed in France that prohibited the sale of obscene photographs and punished the vendor by fine and imprisonment. Read the first page
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I first got this book as a present, and thought that it would be a picture book about beefy gym-bodied men with little substance. Upon reading and looking through the book, my impressions were quickly turned around. This book has a wonderful collection of pictures dating back to the 1800s that show how men have been portrayed by various photographers through the years. Some images are very striking and almost appalling, while others accentuate male form. The text that accompanies the pictures is very informative and critical, making the reader think while he looks upon the images. This is a book that I now enjoy returning to in order to see that the male body has so many possible portrayals. I was even impressed to see my own college professor's work in the book!!
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