'Amateur Photographer' in OBA Collectie

These pictures were taken in 1945 in Sidi Bou Saïd, a place very popular with the intellectuals and film directors of the time.

Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) gave up his career as a writer to become a full-time amateur photographer of celebrated African Americans. Apart from this well-known work, he also took many fotographs of black and brown male nudes. This private, homoerotic...

Spanning 125 years, Art and Queer Culture is the first major historical survey to consider the ways in which the codes and cultures of homosexuality have provided a creative resource for visual artists. Attempts to trouble the conventions of gender and...

In the course of his researches into war photography and the impact of images on how history is written, the German artist and collector Martin Dammann came across numerous amateur photographs of German soldiers dressed up as women. Dammann's discoverie...