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Picturing men : a century of male relationships in everyday American photography

Author
Ibson, John.
Title
Picturing men : a century of male relationships in everyday American photography / John Ibson.
Format
Book
Published
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
Description
xix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
URL
<Table of contents> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2002021014.html <Table of contents> http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=009848670&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.
Contents
  • Preface: A Note on Sources, Purposes, and Assumption
  • 1. Introduction: Whence Came the Void? Men's Uneasy Relationships in Contemporary America
  • 2. The Lost Ritual: American Men Together in Studio Portraits
  • 3. Pageants of Masculinity: Photography as Cultural Performance
  • 4. Merry Bands of Brothers: Military Photographs through World War I
  • 5. Straightening Up: The Evolution of the Team Portrait
  • 6. Whatever Happened to Intimacy? American Men Together in Snapshots
  • 7. Men Set Free: World War II and the Shifting Boundaries of Male Association
  • Epilogue: Out of the Attic
  • Vernacular Photography and Cultural Studies.
Subject headings
Photography of men--History. Photography of men--Social aspects--United States. Male friendship--United States--Pictorial works. Men in popular culture--United States--Pictorial works.
Kinsey subjects
Men --United States. Changing role of men. Friendship. Photography --Male.

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
160.3 I26 p4 2002
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute