New photography exhibit puts a century of queer men in love on display
The Art Newspaper.But there was a second. And a third, and a fourth, and so on, until their collection reached its now massive scope of more than 4,000 historical photographs of men in love, originating from 36 different countries.“We felt [it] was our obligation to keep these photographs.
To keep them safe,” Treadwell said. “Our goal is to continue to have museum exhibitions wherever we can that will propel us into telling this story and sharing the history that love is love.
Love has been around forever.”In 2020, Nini and Treadwell turned their collection into a popular photography book, Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850-1950, that featured more than 300 of the photographs they’d found over the past two decades.
They also released a short documentary telling the story of their collection.Now, their collection has been adapted to an exhibition, also titled Loving, which features nearly all the photographs from the book, along with 80 never-before-seen pictures that Nini and Treadwell have collected since the book was released.A post shared by MAH Genève (@mahgeneve)“In these pictures it’s fantastic the number of different stories it could activate,” said MAH director Marc-Olivier Wahler.
