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The homoerotic photography of Carl Van Vechten : public face, private thoughts / James Smalls.
Van Pelt Library TR681.H65 S66 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smalls, James, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay men, Black--New York (State)--New York--Portraits.
- Gay men, Black.
- Gay men, White--New York (State)--New York--Portraits.
- Gay men, White.
- Photography, Erotic.
- Portrait photography--New York (State)--New York.
- Portrait photography.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
- Van Vechten, Carl.
- Genre:
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 198 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- 1 Days in the Darkroom: Developing a Love Affair with Photography 21
- 2 Van Vechten and the Awakening of Black and Gay Harlem 37
- 3 Lure of the Primitive and Loss of Self 59
- 4 Parallel Desires/Divergent Means 75
- 5 Van Vechten's Interracial "Pas de Deux" 85
- 6 Inside Van Vechten's Camp 99
- 7 The Scrapbooks 111
- 8 New Racial and Interracial Strategies in a Post-Van Vechten World 119
- 9 Forever the "Intrepid Abolitionist" 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-193) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592133053
- OCLC:
- 61704861
- Publisher Number:
- 9781592133055
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