Male is the ultimate book about homotography, photography with homosexual tendencies. Published by PPP Editions, the must-have book draws its material from the private collection of Vince Aletti, the world-renowned American music journalist, photography critic, curator and art collector.
The book features works by iconic photographers Nan Goldin, George Platt Lynes, McDermott and McGough, Gary Schneider, Marco Breuer, Alexander Rodchenko, Peter Hujar and many more.
Male also features a written essay by photographer Collier Schorr titled "A Male is a Male as well as being a Male," in which she discusses the history of homosexual imagery. Schorr writes, "Aletti's collection -- as seen in his book, in his home and in an exhibition space -- creates a Cosmos: at once a microcosm of gay male life, a personal fantasy, and the infinite, enveloping World. The collection is not concerned with the Unique. There is no sense of one-upmanship, each new picture is not there to be better than the last. There is no holy grail."
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2 comments:
Interestingly, the homosexual angle is not obvious in this selection (apart from two images, perhaps). It reads more to me like a collection of images of masculinities. Homosexuals are not the only one to celebrate the male bodies (sexualised or not), feminists (say, Germaine Greer) do so too. It's true, however that the celebration of the male figure is rare in our societies. This is patent in the media. Every "men magazine" (from Playboy to GQ) includes pictures of scantily clad women; whereas "women magazines" barely ever show men (certainly never naked men).
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Davidikus, that's why I like to call it 'homosexual tendencies'. The word 'tendencies' suggest an undertone, not an overtone.
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