“Those pictures had the uncanny effect of conjuring feelings of terror and desire which cleaved my adolescence. Stone’s photographs captured the city not only as I saw it, but as I longed to experience more of it.”
Alan B. Stone: Senses of Place
by David Deitcher
Twenty years ago on a visit to his hometown, David Deitcher saw an exhibition of photographs by local Montreal photographer Alan B. Stone. Stone was best known as a purveyor of beefcake magazines. It took courage for him to operate such a publishing enterprise during Quebec’s repressive post-war years. Working throughout les années noirs, at risk of arrest by the Montreal Morality Squad, Stone’s work epitomizes the resourcefulness of one discreetly gay photographer in pre-Stonewall
North America.
New York, ltd., 2023
ISBN: 979-8-89034-177-8