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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Naked males, too -- liberating the male nude

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Naked Men, Too: Liberating the Male Nude 1950-2000
Naked Men, Too: Liberating the Male Nude 1950-2000
Naked Men Too Liberating the Male Nude 1950-2000
Author: David Leddick
A remarkable sequel to the Lambda award-winning Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1900-1950, Naked Men, Too, exposes the breakthrough nude male photography and art that changed the perception of male beauty. Focusing on the work of influential photographers such as George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Harriet Leibowitz, and Bruce Weber, author David Leddick chronicles the visual revolution that paralleled social and sexual liberation since the late 1950's. With brief biographies of the models, including early renegades like Yves St. Laurent, Joe Dallesandro, Rupert Everett and more-this provocative book features reproductions of the original photos alongside portraits of the models today. This dynamic history of male nudity in art and advertising is for all audiences, gay and straight.

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