America's Erotic Past, 1868-1940
Subtitle: An Annotated Collection of Erotic Photographs in America from the Civil War to Today
By: by G. G. Stoctay.
Series: A Greenleaf classic/GP645
Publisher: Greenleaf Classics
Published: 1973
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Photography, Erotic.
Notes: A survey of American pornographic photography "from the Civil War to today." None of the photographs actually appear to date from the Civil War, and most have ludicrous captions- "The Models Appear Inexperienced" is a good example. There are also a few reproductions of erotic art from books, which have preposterous captions as well, including two by Paul Avril, dating from about 1910, but which are stated to have been done sixty years earlier. Despite these shortcomings, however, the majority of the photographs are genuinely old, and include subject matter that is often overlooked in similar surveys of this sort. Altogether an interesting collection.