Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall

Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

by Thomas Waugh

Spanning more than a century of photography and film, "Hard to Imagine" is the first visual chronicle of the evolution of gay male image culture, from the canonical works of "art" photography and cinema to the private and often highly explicit productions of amateurs. This comprehensive work explores a vast, eclectic tradition in its totality, analyzing the aesthetics of the visual imagery, its production, circulation, and consumption, and broad social and legal implications.

Genres: Queer, Photography

488 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Thomas Waugh is Concordia University Research Chair in Sexual Representation and in Documentary in Montreal, Canada. In addition to writing, he loves teaching, programming, swimming, cycling, travelling in India and sweating at Montreal's ninety-year-old community steambath.