Alan B. Stone: Senses of Place; l'esprit des lieux

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 discretely gay photographer in pre-Stonewall North America.