Hidden Image: Photographs of the Male Nude in the 19th and 20th Centuries

by Peter Weiermair

The Hidden Image is both a stunning anthology of the male nude and a revealing history of how male sexuality has been portrayed photographically from the earliest daguerreotype self portrait of Hippolyte Bayard to the formalized fantasies of Robert Mapplethorpe. The 142 photographs include many previously unpublished portraits from both public and private collections in Europe and the United States. They include works by the historical luminaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262231379
• ISBN13: 9780262231374
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.0" x 11.7"