The Kinsey Institute Archive : a taxonomy of erotic photography

Author

Crump, James

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

History of photography. 1994, Num. 1, Vol. 18, 1-12, 12 ill.

ISSN

0308-7298

Abstract (en)

Seeks to elucidate Kinsey's use of erotic, sexually explicit, and pornographic photography by examining his methodologies of collecting; publishes a selection of 19th and 20th c. images to suggest the breadth and diversity of the archive of the Kinsey Institute (Bloomington), which now consists of over 75,000 photographs. Seeks to locate Kinsey's interest in the photograph as both sexological document and source of visual pleasure, focusing on the juncture of his concern with eroticism and his taxonomic system, which Bataille characterized as "mechanical classification".

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Photography
• Photography
• 1800-2000
• Erotic art
• Collections
• Kinsey, Alfred Charles, 1894-1956
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction||Bloomington (IN, USA)
• Sex
• Iconography
• Eroticism
• Collectors
• United States
• Pornography
• Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962
• Writings
• Research

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Photographie
• Photographie
• 1800-2000
• Erotique (art)
• Collections
• Kinsey, Alfred Charles, 1894-1956
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction||Bloomington (IN, USA)
• Sexe
• Iconographie
• Erotisme
• Collectionneurs
• Etats-Unis
• Pornographie
• Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962
• Ecrits
• Recherche

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950401-00313064

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