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Gay Acrobats Create Stunng Visual Art - THE ARROW [Love. Photography: Gay Male, Pre-Stonewall THOMAS WAUGH PROVIDES AN EXTENSIVE HISTORY OF early erotic photography Hard to Image: Gay Male Eroticism Photography and Film om Their Begngs to He intifi four central tegori of photographic imagery: fe art (avant-gar, fashn, or Art Amy); physil culture (mail-orr or athletic alibi); illic (legally or culturally pornographic), and stmental (scholarly or social agendas produced unr legal, sexologil, or polil spic).

That is, they were origally produced at least part wh pornographic tent and were therefore illegal; but they served the stmental purpose of illtratg homosexual sire for Dr. Pre-Stonewall gay male photography pris a surprisgly large and varied body of work, rangg om simple documentatn of gay male liv and social circl to artistic studi of the eroticized male form, imag whose homoeroticism is nveyed subtly and directly, and works whose tent is primarily pornographic. Early Photography The first exampl of photographs that may be labeled as gay male photography are to be found scrapbooks, archiv, and exhibns.

The photographs dite that the medium om the very begng was ed to document homosocial relatns and possibly homosexualy. A genre of early European photographs, the Amic Nu, provis the first exampl of clearly homoerotic photography. Early Fe Art Photography The first major gay fe art photographer was F.

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He began his reer as a publisher New England, but his photographs brought him to ntact wh Osr Wil’s homophile circle. Day mastered pictorialist techniqu, creatg dreamlike soft-foc imag that blend homoerotic imag of young men wh Christian them of martyrdom and sufferg.

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European Innovators In 1930s Germany, Herbert List helped brg a new sophistitn to homoerotic photography. Another young Vogue photographer who achieved mercial succs and name regnn was Cecil Beaton A theatril signer as well as a photographer, he is bt known for his celebry portras, often of gay iends.

Referred to as the “Dandy Photographer, ” he rarely addrsed gay them overtly, but several historians and scholars have noted subtle homoerotic elements his work. Known as the PAJAMA Group (for Pl-Jared-Margaret), they photographed their timate, largely gay and bisexual, circle over two s, but pecially om 1937 to 1945.

Their imag document a substratum of gay life durg a ccial , while also providg sight to a perd of great creativy and eedom for the artists.

THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE

Ksey, the pneerg sexologist who published Sexual Behavr the Human Male 1948, began llectg Lyn’s homoerotic work the 1950s, and today the Ksey Instute has the largt llectn of his work. Still, his photographs achieve a subtle homoeroticism that is often more powerful bee of the artist’s oblique approach. By the 1940s, a wi variety of homoerotic imagery began to be available to a wi public through male fns or physique magaz such as Strength and Health, Mcle Power, Pictorial, Fizeek Art Quarterly, and Produced for a growg but largely unrground gay subculture, the magaz ed fns as a pretext for pictg buffed-out and oiled-up athlet.

As the gay subculture grew, so did the variety of magaz available. The enterpris marketed their photographs somewhat more openly to gay nsumers than had the earlier magaz. Concln Pre-Stonewall gay male photography is sparse imag documentg gay muny, but rich imag of same-sex sire.

Perhaps that plex relatnship is most clearly illtrated by reference to pre-Stonewall gay male photography, which rang om the high-art aspiratns of F.

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