Hard to Imagine

Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall

By: Thomas Waugh

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Hardcover | 12 December 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Spanning more than a century of photography and film, Hard to Imagine is the first visual chronicle of the evolution of gay male image culture, from the canonical works of "art" photography and cinema to the private and often highly explicit productions of amateurs. This comprehensive work explores a vast, eclectic tradition in its totality, analyzing the aesthetics of the visual imagery, its production, circulation, and consumption, and broad social and legal implications.

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In this vast and valuable study, Waugh has accumulated the most comprehensive study of gay erotic film and photography that will probably ever be undertaken. Library Journal

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Gay Studies for Gay Men Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Education

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Beginnings	p. 1
Reclaiming a Cultural Heritage	p. 1
Nineteenth-Century Roots: The Emergence of Photography as the Privileged Medium for Gay Eroticism	p. 21
Image Patterns That Keep Coming Up	p. 40
Art and Arousal	p. 59
Academic Photography	p. 61
The Pictorialist Generation	p. 71
The Glamour Generation	p. 102
The Road to Stonewall	p. 140
Strength and Stealth	p. 176
The Physical Culture Movement of the Fin-de-Siecle	p. 177
The German Frei Korper Kultur Movement	p. 191
Pioneering North American Developments (1918-1945)	p. 205
The Kinsey Generation: The Golden Age of Magazines and Mail Order (1945-1963)	p. 215
The Movies	p. 253
Coda: Chronology of Persecution, Censorship, and Resistance (1945-1969)	p. 273
"(Oh Horror!) Those Filthy Photos": Illicit Photography and Film	p. 284
"Partouze" Photography (1880-1930)	p. 285
Stag Movies	p. 309
The Modern Era of Illicit Photography	p. 322
Gay-Centered Cinema (1930-1969)	p. 351
Law, Science, and Politics	p. 366
The Lens of the Law	p. 368
Hirschfeld	p. 376
Kinsey	p. 389
Erotic Images and the Gay Movement	p. 402
Endings	p. 417
Notes	p. 421
Bibliography	p. 445
Index	p. 455
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Hard to Imagine

Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall

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