[1/5] Visitors attend the preview of the "Loving" exhibition, which shows photographs of men in love spanning from 1850s to 1950s from a collection of Hugh Nine hugs Neal Treadwell at the Rath Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, June 7, 2023.
"Our mind reels at what might have been going through their heads at the time," said Nini, who with Treadwell has collected photographs of men in love for more than two decades.
In 2020, the U.S. couple published "Loving", a volume with hundreds of snapshots and portraits of displays of love between men taken between the 1850s and 1950s.
Nini and Treadwell first unearthed the photographs at flea markets and family archives, and later online and at auctions.
"What we've discovered through this collection is that just like today, these men, these couples had friends, allies and family who supported them," Nini said.
Persons:
Hugh Nine, Neal Treadwell, Denis Balibouse GENEVA, Hugh Nini, Nini, Treadwell, Cecile Mantovani, Sharon Singleton
Organizations:
Visitors, Rath Museum, REUTERS, Musee, Thomson
Locations:
Geneva, Switzerland, U.S, United States, Germany