Ebony and Ivory, ca. 1897, Platinum print, 18.3 x 20.0 cm (7 3/16 x 7 7/8 in.), Photographs, F. Holland Day (American, Norwood, Massachusetts 1864–1933 Norwood, Massachusetts), Although masked in the guise of exoticism or allegory, Day’s male figure studies—many of them nudes—have an undeniable element of eroticism. Although the artist’s sexuality was not discussed at the time, the esthete Day’s lifelong bachelorhood, his admiration and publication of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, his flamboyant manner, and his ongoing interest in photographing male nudes leads one to conclude that these studies were more than mere forays into the exotic or demonstrations of technical prowess in studio lighting and subtle platinum printing
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