Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1588340554 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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S. Kay Murphy said Beautiful historical documentation. When my son first told me about this book, he had seen it briefly at a book signing. He told me that it was "a collection of old pictures of men together," and that it was not meant to be eroticism. He was right on both counts, but the book is so much more than that. It is a chronicle--historical documentation of a segment of our culture, a glimpse of part of who we were as a society that might have been lost had not John Ibson meticulously produced this work. Can you imagine that at one time in the not so distant past, men of all walks of life--cowboys, soldiers, athletes, businessmen--felt comfortable enough with e. "A Major Contribution to the Field of Gender Studies" according to Grady Harp. Writing in an erudite, scholarly manner Professor John Ibson has managed to present a substantive survey of the evolution of male gender perception in his PICTURING MEN: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography. And for all its heavily researched scholarship, Ibson also has created a very tender elegy about the history of male intimacy, tracing the genuinely warm comraderie as depicted in extant studio and personal photographs rom the mid 19th Century to the gradual emergence of homophobia after World War II.This is a book that probably is best read twice: the first 'read' should be a slow thu. nice Copy! Keith Very ,Very , nice Copy !! Looks NEW !!! An important look into OUR. Past !!! !!
. He is professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton. About the Author John Ibson's research for this book took him not only to conventional sources consulted by historians but also to flea markets, gun shows, and internet auctions
He explores the photos as symbols of male association from a time when America was far more gender-segregated than it is today, and men felt no anxiety about showing their affection for one another. These photographs, spanning from before the Civil War to the 1950s, reveal a lost world. His analysis focuses on the history of male intimacy and how these everyday photographs challenge conventional boundaries between erotic and platonic, homosexuality and heterosexuality. They show men comfortably sitting on each other's laps, embracing, holding hands, and expressing their various relationships through countless examples of simple physical contact. His perspective unearths a hidden aspect of American men's history. Rather than imposing contemporary notions of sexuality by assuming the images only illustrate a portion of the gay past, John Ibson returns them to their own time to examine what they meant to the subjects. The images present men of different ages, classes, and races in a range of settings: posed in photographers' studios, on beaches, in lumbe
. John Ibson's research for this book took him not only to conventional sources consulted by historians but also to flea markets, gun shows, and internet auctions. He is professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton