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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Fine. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 95 b/w photographs. English text. Text by Pam Roberts, Edwin Becker, Verna Posever Curtis and Anne E. Havinga. Original gray linen stamped in white with a photograph laid down on the upper cover. As issued, without dust jacket. Fine. 144 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 14x11x0; Hardcover with original mylar dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Limited to 5, 000 casebound copies. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.