Visualizing Homoeroticism: The Photographs of Robert Gant, 1887-1892

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Visualizing Homoeroticism: The Photographs of Robert Gant, 1887-1892

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

How did 19th-century men understand and represent their same-sex desires in a time and place where homosexuality was publicly unnamable? In partial answer to this question, this article focuses on two photograph albums assembled by Robert Gant in New Zealand during the 1880s. It explores the themes implicit in these albums, and suggests that men like Gant could piece together homoerotic subjectivities by creating and collating visual materials. Gant's pictures, like those of his overseas cont...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Journal article

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Article

Date created

2010

Creator

Brickell, Chris

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/6539

Related subjects

homosexuality / homosociality / photography / New Zealand / history

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