7 amazing photos that capture queer history – including this shot from 1900

F. Holland Day, 1900 – by Alvin Langdon Coburn (Image: © Estate of Alvin Langdon Coburn / The Universal Order)

Drawing from the Victoria and Albert Museum‘s extensive collection, Calling the Shots is an arresting, newly-released hardback surveying the history of LGBTIQ+ photography from as far as the 19th century.

Authored by Zorian Clayton with Lydia Caston and Hana Kaluznick, it features the work of an array of photographers past and present from around the world, including Cecil Beaton, Zanele Muholi and Nan Goldin.

The above picture, by Alvin Langdon Coburn, shows fellow US photographer F. Holland Day striking a pose in the year 1900. Day, who was also a publisher, was known for his homoerotic portraits, and it is widely believed that he was gay.

(Book cover: © Thames & Hudson; Pan image © Estate

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