Admirer en fermant les yeux : la réception critique de l’œuvre de F. Holland Day à Paris en 1901

A key figure of the studies dedicated to the homoerotic photograph, American pictorialist F. Holland Day (1864-1933) patiently built a poetic world inhabited by obviously sensual male nudes. Yet, the critical reception of his work by his contemporaries shows no acknowledgment of this sensuality no more than it takes into account his taste for the nude. The “Exhibition of the Work of F. Holland Day and the American New School”, shown in Paris in 1901, reveals the paralysis of the critics when confronted to the unusual eroticism of Day’s nonstandard aesthetic. Despite its obviousness, his consta... Mehr ...