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work_pa7ijmonpbhvzpbtfzl3qfowua	Murat C. Yıldız	'What is a Beautiful Body?'	2015	23	.pdf	application/pdf	6569	487	58	and the press, I argue that they cemented homosocial bonds, normalized and popularized new notions of masculinity, confessionalized the male body and reconfigured the the 'sportsman photograph' that depicted young men posing shirtless or wearing tight-fitting athletic attire, flexing their muscles and exhibiting their bodies. 3 The photographs discussed in this essay are representative of a larger body of understudied images that are either stored in the dusty archives of sports clubs in Istanbul or scattered in private collections in Turkey and around the world. Sports clubs were one of the main spaces in which Muslim, Christian and Jewish young men in late Ottoman Istanbul met to socialize and play sports. which young men posed either bare-chested or clad in athletic attire, celebrated new imageries of male corporeal beauty, which was constructed as photographs of young middle-class men, members of athletic clubs or physical culture aficionados whose private portraits the bourgeoning press used to	./cache/work_pa7ijmonpbhvzpbtfzl3qfowua.pdf	./txt/work_pa7ijmonpbhvzpbtfzl3qfowua.txt