Machine generated contents note: PREFACE
A Note on Sources, Purposes, and Assumptions ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv 1 Introduction: Whence Came the Void? Men's Uneasy Relationships in Contemporary America 1
2 The Lost Ritual: American Men Together in Studio Portraits 9
3 Pageants of Masculinity: Photography as Cultural Performance 51
4 Merry Bands of Brothers: Military Photographs through World War I 77
5 Straightening Up: The Evolution of the Team Portrait 99
6 Whatever Happened to Intimacy? American Men Together in Snapshots 119
7 Men Set Free: World War II and the Shifting Boundaries of Male Association 159
EPILOGUE
Out of the Attic-Vernacular Photography and Cultural Studies 197
NOTES 203
INDEX 231.
Picturing men : a century of male relationships in everyday American photography by John Ibson. ISBN 1588340554. Published by Smithsonian Institution in 2002. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.