A History of Male Photographers
Analyzing Men as Men in Scientific, Commercial, and Art Photography, 1870 to the Present
A History of Male Photographers
Analyzing Men as Men in Scientific, Commercial, and Art Photography, 1870 to the Present
Description
What, if anything, makes photography masculine? This book begins the task of recognizing men's photography as the work of men and their masculinities.
From the composite portraiture at the male-only university of the 1880s, to the work of still-living photographer Reagan Louie, the authors situate their photographic subjects in the context of evolving racial, gender, and class identities in Europe and America. Several of the authors analyze instances when men photographers subverted hegemonic masculinity by exposing its signs. The authors are also attuned to the role of queerness and the queer gaze in fine art, documentary, and fashion photography of the last century. Common to them all is a refusal to take for granted the constructed masculinity that surrounded photography's practitioners and institutions, whether those practitioners paid its costs or drew its dividends.
Table of Contents
About the Editor and Contributors
Introduction
1. A History of Male Photographers: Analyzing Men as Men in Scientific, Commercial, and Art Photography, 1870 to the Present
Nicole Hudgins (University of Baltimore)
2. The Perfect Man: Picturing a Calm, Cultured Masculinity to Preserve Boston Brahmin Power in Harvard's Fin-de-Siècle Composite Photography
Kris Belden-Adams (University of Mississippi)
3. Elio Luxardo and the Italian Homofascist Photography: Performing Masculinity during the
Fascist Era Federica Muzzarelli (University of Bologna)
4. George Platt Lynes: Liminality and the Body
Marcus Young (Queen's University)
5. Ansel Adams: Male Photographer
Rebecca A. Senf (University of Arizona)
6. A Boys' Club for Whole Men: Robert Heinecken, the Society for Photographic Education, and the Institutionalization of Creative Photography in the United States
Ariel Evans (University of Texas at Austin)
7. The Quest for the Ideal Man: Reversing the Male Gaze in Hans Eijkelboom's Photography
Marc Lenot (Independent Researcher)
8. Fatherhood Through a Contemporary Lens
Rebecca A. Senf (University of Arizona)
9. Constructing the “Male Photographer” Through Race and Gender: Reagan Louie and Orientalia
Yechen Zhao (Art Institute of Chicago)
Product details
| Published | 02 Oct 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781978767539 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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