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Sex Photographs: What sort of sex photographs were these prints, which caused so much commotion? Just plain, straightforward itographs. But such sex photographs! Different from the sex photographs usually seen at the exhibitions? Yes. How different? There's the rub. If you could see them for yourself, you would at once appreciate their difference.
Hannavy, John. Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall. Boston: David R. Godine, 1976. ROBERT FRANK
The Americans. sex photographs by Robert Frank. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, Inc., 1978. LEE FRIEDLANDER
Lee Friedlander sex photographs. New City, N.Y.: Haywire Press, 1978.
Frith, Francis. Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic sex photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1980. Bibl.
These books were folkloristic studies, of which the sex photographs were an integral part. Each picture had been made on the spot, often with great difficulty, always with direct honesty. Free from sentimentality and artificiality, they were diametrically opposed to the art-sex photographs of Robinson and his followers. |
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