In the pre-Stonewall era before the advent of the gay rights movement, male nude photography was kept underground. Photographers feared police confiscation, harassment, and worse. This volume uncovers the work of ten different photographers produced during this suppressive period--images hidden away for a generation in private collections and closed archives. The majority have never been published. A full range of styles is included: gleaming muscle gods shot in the physique magazine style, sun-dappled outdoor nudes from ...
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In the pre-Stonewall era before the advent of the gay rights movement, male nude photography was kept underground. Photographers feared police confiscation, harassment, and worse. This volume uncovers the work of ten different photographers produced during this suppressive period--images hidden away for a generation in private collections and closed archives. The majority have never been published. A full range of styles is included: gleaming muscle gods shot in the physique magazine style, sun-dappled outdoor nudes from the 1960s, and artful black-and-white studio portraits by George Platt Lynes. Uncovered restores a lost chapter to the history of the male nude photograph and reintroduces more than one hundred unsung classics of male erotic photography to the world.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. 4to-over 9æ-12" tall. Hardcover, case bound in brown paper covered boards, lettered in black, in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. 160 pages. Foreword by Victor Skrebneski and an introduction by Reed Massengill. Selected Bibliography. Illustrated with over 100 black and white vintage photographs. First edition. A collection of the work of ten pre-Stoinewall photographers whose images "convey the provocative sense of a maverick working beyond societies boundaries." A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket. N.B. Full frontal nudity, for sale to those 18 or older. Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.
