Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography

by John Ibson

Book Overview

There was a time in America when two men pictured with their arms wrapped around each other, or perhaps holding hands, weren't necessarily seen as sexually involved-a time when such gestures could be seen simply as those of intimate friendship rather than homoeroticism.

Such is the time John Ibson evokes in Picturing Men, a striking visual record of changes in attitudes about relationships between gentlemen, soldiers, cowboys, students,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226368580
• ISBN13: 9780226368580
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 10.0"