Robert
Laliberté |
| Collections:
Male Nudes ; Corpus
Anima
2002 marked the 25th anniversary of the career of Robert
Laliberté, Canada's renowned gay French-Canadian photographer.
Over the years, although he has worked with different subject
matters, LalibertÈ has built his solid reputation mainly on
his stunning nudes of the male body pictures in which he artfully
sculpts the male body with light, revealing a natural sensuality
without ever being explicit.
In a narrow community of spirit, through zones of shade and
light, two men communicate. The idea of this exhibition was
born out of the desire to carry out a tangible interaction
between model and photographer and to highlight several dichotomies
of existence. Both an emotive and an esthetic choice, working
with a single model has enabled me to try out new avenues,
to build, in a much more personal way, a study already undertaken
on the male body. Through intimacy and confidence, I tried
to capture various sensitive demonstrations of the soul, all
elements that give life to forms and movements.
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Johan
Van Breukelen |
| Collections:
Positions;
Crouch;
Color;
Stretch; Since 1989,
Johan has devoted himself to two-dimensional works of art
in which he draws with light. His photo works are a combination
of photography and different drawing and painting techniques.
The photographs are characterized by playing with light and
reflection and the direct painting of body's. Men inspire
the subjects of his paintings. During photographic sessions
he seeks, together with his models, to imagine his ideas and
fantasies, male sexual energy, strength and vulnerability. |
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Dianora
Niccolini |
| Collections:
Male Nudes;
Solarized Nudes;
Swimmers;
Billy Dolls 25 years ago gay
magazines were full of photographic images of sexy men. Thus,
the male nude became stigmatized. Photographing the male nude
was not considered an art form but rather was relegated to
homoerotic pornography. Homosexual men had always photographed
their lovers (and other men willing to pose for them) since
the onset of photography. Few women dared and even less showed
their work publicly. It was at this time that one woman emerged
as a pioneer and one of the most important trend setters of
the late 20th century; Dianora Niccolini
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Anthony
Boccaccio |
| Collections:
Sensuality; Excitation;
Imagination;
Innocence Lost;
Sleeping Beauties The
sensual for Boccaccio is more interesting visually than the
erotic. Though no one could deny that this collection of beautiful
bodies calls forth a certain erotic tone, it is an echo of
innocence and purity. There is an Ideal at work in his photography,
and although most of his models do not posses the ideal body
(whatever that is!) Boccaccio is quick to say that the body
is not important in itself but only as it points to and reflects
the beauty and mystery hidden beneath the form.
Meet Tony in Rome and take a photography tour!
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Rob
Gibb |
| Collections:
Blue Room; Desert
Nudes;
Collectors Edition Rob
Gibb is a British photographer whose work in fashion photography
has been published internationally. He is currently head of
photography at the Birmingham Institue of Art and Design.
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Thijs
van Gils |
Collections:
Male Nudes
A tribute to the beauty of the human form' is the essence
of his work, according to Van Gils. His stylised approach
to the combination of photography and art is one of the many
reasons why Van Gils will be considered as a photographer
of difference. Creative art has always been a part of his
life, but he needed time before he felt his photography worthy
of public display. "The human body is a form of art itself,
that's what I try to emphasize in my images" van Gils says.
"I try to translate my fascination for the beauty of the human
body into visual art.
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James
Spada |
Collections:
Edwardian Men
If a photographer at the turn of last century wanted to
depict male nudity, decorum decreed he retreat to the safety
of classical poses, biblical themes and the judicious placement
of foliage. This clash of moral and aesthetic imperatives
gave Boston-based photographer James Spada a flash of inspiration--with
his "Edwardian Men" series he wanted people to look upon the
apparently vintage (yet occasionally tumescent) nudes and
think, "My God, how did they get away with that?"
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Tony
Butcher |
| Collections: Studies
in Black Tony Butcher's Studies in Black‚
have been shown worldwide in both exhibitions, books and magazines.
Tony started his photography when a camera he used for taking
holiday snaps was ruined by sand on a holiday to The Gambia,
on returning home he bought another camera and decided to
go to night school and it was there he used black and white
film for the first time and a love for the medium was born,
within one year of taking photography seriously he gained
a fellowship with a panel of his black male nudes at the Royal
Photographic Society.
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