No matter how vivacious, all vintage photographs are poignant with history and loss, but Dear Friends' touchingly elegiac air comes from the material itself. What's been lost in the decades since these pictures were made is not just the tradition of romantic friendship but a kind of freedom and grace. Deitcher, who includes a photo of Walt Whitman with his "rebel soldier friend" Peter Doyle, lets the poet of sexual ambiguity describe the bonds memorialized in his book: "threads of manly friendship, fond and loving, pure and sweet, strong and lifelong."
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By David Deitcher
Abrams, 160 pp., $35
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A show of the photographs fromDear Friends is at the International Center of Photography, 1130 Sixth Avenue, through June 10.
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