The short-lived career of nineteenth-century photographer F. Holland Day is the basis for this important historical monograph. Though he is perhaps best known for his controversial "sacred subjects" in which he posed himself as Jesus Christ, Day quickly moved to the forefront of American photography with his portraiture and his later mythological series. Day was probably the first great photographer of the male nude. A friend of Oscar Wilde and an early proponent of gay rights, women's rights, and racial equality, scandal ...
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The short-lived career of nineteenth-century photographer F. Holland Day is the basis for this important historical monograph. Though he is perhaps best known for his controversial "sacred subjects" in which he posed himself as Jesus Christ, Day quickly moved to the forefront of American photography with his portraiture and his later mythological series. Day was probably the first great photographer of the male nude. A friend of Oscar Wilde and an early proponent of gay rights, women's rights, and racial equality, scandal surrounded him and caused his marginalization.
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New in New jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth (with debossed design printed in black ink on front cover), with acetate dust jacket. Photographs by F. Holland Day. Essay by James Crump. Includes a selected bibliography. 144 pp. with 86 four-color plates. 14-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches. This edition was limited to 5000 hardbound copies. New in publisher's shrink-wrap.
