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<p>new</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;The Boy: A Photographic Essay&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; (1964) is a book of [[photography|photographs]] of boys edited by Georges St. Martin and Ronald C. Nelson and published by Book Horizons, Inc. in [[New York]]. <br /> <br /> == Contents ==<br /> <br /> The book features over 400 photographs: candid pictures, portraits and some nudes typical of [[naturism|naturist]] magazines of the era. The editors used contemporary as well as lots of stock photography which, somewhat, reveals hasty production as some pictures &quot;appear to have been included on the basis of what was available to the editors&quot;. (1)<br /> <br /> The photographers that contributed to the collection were American and European and included [[Hajo Ortil]], [[Karel Egermeier]], Ermete Marzoni, Jos Le Doare, and others. The book also featured a series of pictures (a few of which were nudes) taken on location during the shooting of the film &#039;&#039;[[Lord of the Flies]]&#039;&#039; (1963).<br /> <br /> == Reception ==<br /> <br /> The book proved to be very successful. It received many good reviews in the homophile press and was reprinted at least twice (1966, 1967). Moreover, the editors issued a follow-up collection titled &#039;&#039;Boys Will Be Boys&#039;&#039; (1966). Both books are currently out of print.<br /> <br /> Nevertheless, whereas the book was well received back in the 1960s, the change in the attitudes toward [[child pornography|depictions of naked boys]] coupled with the prevailing hysteria over [[child sexual abuse]], led some people to believe that the book is pornographic.<br /> <br /> Quite recently, the prosecution in [[Michael Jackson]]&#039;s trial unsuccessfully tried to present &#039;&#039;The Boy&#039;&#039; (a copy of which was seized from Jackson&#039;s home in 1993 and never returned) as being child erotica or pornography. [http://www.courttv.com/news/jackson/012505_dimond_ctv.html] <br /> <br /> == Notes ==<br /> <br /> (1)([[Walter Breen]]), &quot;Review of &#039;&#039;The Boy: A Photographic Essay&#039;&#039;,&quot; &#039;&#039;[[International Journal of Greek Love]]&#039;&#039; 1, no. 2 (1966): 61.<br /> <br /> == External links ==<br /> <br /> [[Category:Photography|Boy, The: A Photographic Essay]]</div>

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