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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Wilhelm von Gloeden

Names:
Other: Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden 
Dates:  1856, 16 September - 1931, 16 February
Born:  Germany, Chateau de Volkshagen, nr. Mecklenburg
Died:  Italy, Sicily, Taormina
Active:  Italy
Gender:  Male
 
  
Male nude studies of young boys and men in 1920s Italy. Many of his glass plate negatives were destroyed by the Fascists who saw them as pornographic.

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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo to website
Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• International Center of Photography 1999 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection (New York: A Bulfinch Press Book) p.230 [Includes a well written short biography on Wilhelm von Gloeden with example plate(s) earlier in book.] 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Wilhelm von Gloeden.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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