A new book chronicl the life and work of the groundbreakg photographer and gay in Peter Berl.
Contents:
- INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
- QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
- GAY BERL
INSI THE WORLD OF PETER BERL, GROUNDBREAKG PHOTOGRAPHER AND GAY IN
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Almost 50 years after his unpromisg films and darg self-portras ma him a fg gay sex symbol of the ’70s, Peter Berl n’t que fathom why anyone would still be terted his work. He’s an trovert known for his exhibnism; a gifted photographer whose only subject is himself; a porn star who don’t much re for sex; and a man who rpond to the artific that so many gay men nstcted to hi their te selv by creatg an even more exaggerated sexual and stylistic persona.
”Copyright of Peter work, llected for the first time hardver format Peter Berl: In, Artist, Photosexual (Damiani), pil highlights om the thoands of erotic self-portras that Berl has taken over the urse of his life, many of which origally appeared on the vers of gay magaz and ma him an ternatnal cult in. ” To the artist Jack Pierson, Berl is “the first gay nceptual artist.
QUEER & GAY BERL: YOUR GUI FOR LGBTQ+ BERL
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Copyright of Peter films were a h and ma him the gay sex symbol of the time. And the ubiquy of digal platforms has ma photographg onelf a fact of life: On rtls nights, many a young gay man this si of Pete Buttigieg has unwtgly paid homage to Berl wh an iPhone, an ASOS jockstrap, and a bathroom mirror. An ever-growg army of so-lled #Instagays now take Berl’s place the gay imagatn.
Copyright of Peter, if RuPl matas that every man, gay or straight, should drs up drag to appreciate the powers of femy, Berl might argue that every man should fashn himself as an unrepentant object of rnal sire, at least once a while. The activy has particularly ronated wh gay men and is now pervasive.
GAY BERL
And almost fifty years before the technologi ma this monplace at the dawn of the crimalizatn of homosexual imagery, one termed man arrived there before all others. When Nights Black Leather was released, was embraced by an ternatnal dience of gay men sperately needg a role mol to help them shed stiflg patriarchal standards of mascule reprentatn; and for Peter Berl, the act of makg the film was jt as much of a gui as was for his dience, helpg him to sharpen his own unpromised libido impuls. It leveraged the lol celebry Berl had veloped San Francis by creatg a highly specific, credibly nfint hyper-homo persona, which he’d been performg and refg on the cy streets for years.
Through advertisements gay publitns, ctomers purchased photographs of Berl for their own private pleasure.