Dear Friends
American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918
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Word Count
39,750 words, Guess
Page Count
159 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7998830M
- ISBN-139780810957121
- ISBN-100810957124
- OCLC Control Number44769153
- OCLC Control Numberdearfriendsameri0000deit
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00062076
- Goodreads1367904
- LibraryThing213046
Classifications
- LCCTR681.H65D45 2001
Description
Dear Friends is the first book to demonstrate how common it was for 19th-century American men to commemorate intimate friendships with a visit to the local photographer. Reproducing more than 100 never-before-published vintage photographs, this groundbreaking book provides evidence of a kind of physical intimacy between men that challenges the conventional view of the Victorian era. David Deitcher's provocative text combines historical research, social observation, and pictorial analysis to explore the nature of same-sex affection between men during the period.
Description
"Dear Friends is the first book to demonstrate how common it was for nineteenth-century American men to commemorate intimate friendships with a visit to the local photographer; indeed, a look back today at these old portraits of anonymous men suggests how very affectionate those friendships could be.". "Reproducing more than one hundred never-before-published vintage photographs dating from shortly after the introduction of photography in the United States to the end of World War I, this groundbreaking book focuses attention on the evidence of a kind of physical intimacy between men that challenges the conventional view of the Victorian era as more inhibited than our own.". "David Deitcher's text combines historical research, social observation, pictorial analysis, and personal reflection to explore the nature of same-sex affection between men during that period and the meaning of its ambiguous photographic legacy for people today."--BOOK JACKET.
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