The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts

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Temple University Press, 2006 - Photography - 198 pages
James Smalls focuses on homoerotic, interracial male nudes and discusses the images in the context of primitivism's relationship to modernism, camp sensibility and theatricality, white privilege and exotic tourism, and the politics of spectatorship.

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About the author (2006)

James Smalls is Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Homosexuality in Art.

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TitleThe Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts
AuthorJames Smalls
Editionillustrated
PublisherTemple University Press, 2006
ISBN1592133053, 9781592133055
Length198 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Photography / Criticism
Photography / General
Photography / Individual Photographers / General
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Erotica
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies
Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
  
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