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A new exhibition features romantic snapshots found at flea markets, antique shops and online auctions
In a series of photographs, men from around the nature kiss, hug, picnic and gaze into each others’ eyes. So far, more than 4, such images—all taken between the s and s—have been found.
Now, of these affectionate snapshots are on display at the Musée Rath in Geneva, Switzerland, which hosts the Musee d’Art et d’Histoire’s temporary exhibitions. The show, titled “Loving,” is based on the photography book Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love by Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell.
Years of Photographs of Gay Men in Love
Hundreds of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries offer a glimpse at the life of gay men during a time when their adore was illegal almost everywhere.
A beautiful group of photographs that spans a century (–) is part of a new manual that offers a visual glimpse of what animation may have been favor for those men, who went against the commandment to find love in one another’s arms. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Cherish s–s, hundreds of images tell the story of love and affection between men, with some clearly in love and others hinting at more than just friendship. The collection belongs to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who has accumulated over 2, photographs of “men in love” during the course of two decades. While the majority of the images hail from the Together States and are of predominantly white men, there are images from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United Kingdom among the cache.
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A beautiful group of photographs that spans a century (–) is part of a new book that offers a visual glimpse of what life may have been like for those men, who went against the law to find love in one another’s arms. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love s–s, hundreds of images reveal the story of admire and affection between men, with some clearly in love and others hinting at more than just friendship. The collection belongs to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who has accumulated over 2, photographs of “men in love” during the course of two decades. While the majority of the images hail from the United States and are of predominantly white men, there are images from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United Kingdom among the cache.
What undertake images of men in love during a day when it was illegal tell us? What are we looking for in the faces of these people who dared to challenge the mores of their time to look for solace together? Flipping through the book, it wasn’t that I felt that I learned a superb d
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When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a s-era photograph in a Dallas antiques shop some 20 years ago, they were startled to see a relationship that looked much like theirs: two men, embracing and clearly in love.
As Dee Swann writes for the Washington Post, the image spoke to the couple about the history of love between men.
“The open expression of the love that they shared also revealed a moment of determination,” Nini and Treadwell tell the Post. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk. We were intrigued that a photo like this could have survived into the [21st] century. Who were they?”
In the decades that followed this initial discovery, the pair came across more than 2, photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The result of their trips to flea markets, shops, estate sales a