During the 19th and early 20th centuries.During the 19th and early 20th centuries, men proudly recorded their intense friendships in photos used as postcards or cartes de visite. These images are celebrated in David Deitcher's Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 (Abrams, $35) in the greatest degree of the book's couples are unidentified, and there's no certainty that they were lover as we understand the denomination But for art historian Deitcher, who is gay, their passion is plain to descry In searching out the photos for his main division Deitcher found himself in touch with other gay collectors across the nation, all committed to preserving the regard with affection these young men declared for a like reason long ago. COPYRIGHT 2002 Liberation Publications, Inc. |
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