The Pleasure of His Company
Male Togetherness in Found Photographs: Vintage Photographs from the Collection of John Ibson
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 25 May 2026
- ISBN 9781956313567
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 279x216 mm
- Weight 776 g
- Language English 698
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A photo may capture a moment in cultural time-literally mirroring beliefs, assumptions, conventions, and notions of behaviours acceptable and scorned.
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A photo may capture a moment in cultural time-literally mirroring beliefs, assumptions, conventions, and notions of behaviors acceptable and scorned. The 385 photographs in this book are just such mirrors. Two decades ago, John Ibson, a historian of masculinity's history in the United States and of the variety of male relationships, used that approach to photography to examine shifting meanings of American manhood in his influential book Picturing Men: A Century of Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography. Now, in The Pleasure of His Company, John Ibson opens his vast collection of everyday photographs of males together once again. Ibson believes these photos, all published here for the first time, take us to a world of unselfconscious affection among American men, a world largely lost today. It is a world, he maintains, whose loss contributed to the toxic masculinity so much lamented today.
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"""INTRODUCTION Finding Photographs 1 CHAPTER 1. All These Friends and Lovers: Male Couples in Found Photographs 17 CHAPTER 2. My Guys: Groups of Men 53 CHAPTER 3. Brothers in Arms: Military Photographs 69 CHAPTER 4. Acting for the Camera: Male Performance in Photographs 97 CHAPTER 5. Preserving the Special Occasions: Males at Work and Play 119 5A. Found Photographs of American Boyhood 122 5B. The Team Photo and American Masculinity 126 5C. Men at Work: The Occupational Photograph 130 5D. Members Only: Photographs of Male Organizations 132 5E. Male Space in the Sand: Boys at the Beach 134 EPILOGUE The Value of This Collection 139 AFTERWORD What This Collection Means to Me 141 Steve Harrison ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 145 INDEX TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS 147 INDEX 157"""
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