Art and the Camera: The Photographs of F. Holland Day.(Brief Article)

Artforum International | September 1, 2000| | Copyright

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F. Holland Day (1864-1933), monied Boston aesthete and eccentric, took up Pictorialist photography in his twenties and became one of its most artful and popular proponents. Working in an allegorical style that recalled Julia Margaret Cameron, he turned out moody portraits and vaguely homoerotic male nudes, most in rich, warm-toned platinum prints. For his most famous and controversial ...

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