The homoerotic photography of Carl Van Vechten :

Smalls, James, 1958-

The homoerotic photography of Carl Van Vechten : public face, private thoughts / James Smalls. - Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006. - viii, 198 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index.

Days in the Darkroom: Developing a Love Affair with Photography -- Van Vechten and the Awakening of Black and Gay Harlem -- Lure of the Primitive and Loss of Self -- Parallel Desires/Divergent Means -- Van Vechten's Interracial "Pas de Deux" -- Inside Van Vechten's Camp -- The Scrapbooks -- New Racial and Interracial Strategies in a Post-Van Vechten World -- Forever the "Intrepid Abolitionist".

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Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.


Gay men, Black--New York (State)--New York--Portraits.
Gay men, White--New York (State)--New York--Portraits.
Photography, Erotic.
Portrait photography--New York (State)--New York.

TR681.H65 / S66 2006

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