Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall

Waugh, Thomas

Spanning more than a century of photography and film, Hard to Imagine is the first visual chronicle of the evolution of gay male image culture, from the canonical works of "art" photography and cinema to the private and often highly explicit productions of amateurs. This comprehensive work explores a vast, eclectic tradition in its totality, analyzing the aesthetics of the visual imagery, its production, circulation, and consumption, and broad social and legal implications.

EAN

9780231099981

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

12 December 1996

Pages

488