Dear Friends
Subtitle: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918
Publisher: HNA Books
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780810957121
Subjects: Men's studies; Photographs: portraits; Portraits; Photo Essays; Photojournalism; United States; Photography; Portrait photography; USA; Photoessays & Documentaries; Men's Studies - General; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; Gay male couples; Gay Studies; Gay couples; Gay men; History
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.