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Early 1880s. Thomas Eakins. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu,
California. This photo group is part of Eakins's "naked series" and is
labeled simply "Old man, seven photographs." The model bears a striking
resemblance to Whitman; for a plausible case that this may be a photo of
Whitman "undisguised and naked," see Ed Folsom, "Walt Whitman's 'Calamus'
Photographs" in Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman, Breaking Bounds: Whitman
and American Cultural Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996),
193-219.
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