Last week saw the lnch of The Ltle Black Gallery's new queer photography magaze BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!. The llectors edn Volume 1 featur the work of ten photographers om ten untri and adds to the growg BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! art platform "to promote queer and gay photography", which now reprents more than 60 photographers om 24 untri cludg…
Contents:
- BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
- THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
- GAY MEN MAL STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
- 'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
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"Around three years ago, I was workg on the layout of a book about physique photography wh photos om the 1950s, whose athetics and visual worlds were clearly tend to appeal to a gay dience. In the urse of this work, I asked myself: what would a book wh ntemporary gay and queer photography look like?
"Around that time, I beme aware of the works of Matt Lambert and Florian Hetz, and I started to look for other gay and queer photographers. Indulgg their sire for self-prentatn, affirmatn, and reflectn, many photographers portray male homosexualy particular as a private idyll. However, a number of documentary photographers provi evince that beg gay or lbian n still lead to margalizatn, isolatn, stigmatizatn, and vlence certa untri and muni.
Vcent Keh of MASCULAR Stud and Oliver Zke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the lnch of A Portra Isolatn, a project explorg emotnal and physil space the end of March 2020, as the COVID-19 global panmic grew spe and impact, gay men around the world were asked to subm self portras that reflected their experience of the ronavis lock-down. The ia behd the llectn was to show that gay men are affected by the crisis a siar way to everyone else but more so. Livg liv which are often agmented between nventnal work ndns and their private liv leav many gay men whout the tradnal support mechanisms of heterosexuals and this shows through the separated by geography, culture and age, the men the imag all share fears for the future, lonels, job secury, and separatn.
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
Daniel Wenger on Bob Mizer, who found the first gay magaze the U.S., Physique Pictorial, and specialized photographg buff young men. * photography gay men *
MASCULAR is a London-based stud tablished by Vcent Keh that explor elements of gay and male inty through photography.
GAY MEN MAL STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
Fd the perfect gay men mal stock photo, image, vector, illtratn or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensg. * photography gay men *
Captured through the non-nformist spe of the gay male gaze, the soon-to-be-published photobook X is a 10-year photographic culmatn of the multidimensnal male subject. Charl Moriarty spoke wh PROVOKR on his foc of the male subject, notg, "As a gay man, 's hard not to be trigued wh men and their many varied molds -- and 's never jt one thg that I feel drawn to [...
Photographs by Matthew MorrocLike many gay men searchg for timacy the morn day, the photographer Matthew Morroc has found his share of onle.
Many of his panns had survived both the AIDS crisis and heights of homophobia unknown to younger generatns. Bt Gay Scene: Murray Bartlett, Las Gage 'The Whe Lot'. Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'.
'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
There's nothg like a good gay photo. You n hardly turn around a gallery whout bumpg to a photo that was eher snapped by a queer person or one for a subject: om Calyn Jenner's portra by Annie Leibovz to the provotive works of Robert Mapplethorpe to the geni of Andy Warhol, Cathere Opie, and Pierre and Gill. Maybe there's somethg queer about the photograph, the transformatn om a subject to an object a flash. Or maybe all our years of takg selfi for Grdr prepared for the job. In any se, what mak the gay photo gay is the look levels at the viewer: We are ed to beg seen, but now we n look back. * photography gay men *
Art platform “to promote queer and gay photography”, which now reprents more than 60 photographers om 24 untri cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia, and Turkey where LGBTQ+ rights are reprsed and queer liv are unr threat. “You may ask why do we need a platform and magaze for queer and gay photography”, Ghisla Pasl, -founr and -owner of The Ltle Black Gallery, curator and edor of BOYS!
Said, “The simple answer is that queer and gay photography is grossly unrreprented the fe art world, and even more so the mastream media.
Is phg back agast this and attemptg to make mastream and showsg queer and gay photography the ntext of fe art photography. He was the on air film cric on both Gaydar Rad and Gayd's breakfast shows and has ntributed to the UK's bt sellg LGBTQ publitn, Attu Magaze.
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
Volume 1, Domeni Cennamo, gay, gay men, gay photographer, gay photography, gay photos, Krzysztof Marchlak, Maths Katayama, michael epps, Michael Sønrgaard, Niv Shank, Pl McDonald, queer photographer, queer photography, queer photos, Serge Le Hidalgo, The Queer Review, Tyler Udall. His notn of gayns was rmed by a “Co of Behavr” that he rerd his high-school diary: “More mascule at all tim. ” Among his mols were the gay and the straight, profsnal bodybuilrs and profsnal beach bums, llege stunts and returne om the European ont.
But there’s jt as much reason to nsir Mizer the gay Hugh Hefner—a tirels llector of physil specimens. In 1951, he found what is generally nsired the untry’s origal gay magaze, Physique Pictorial, and would ntue publishg for nearly four s**. ** In the magaze’s early years he clud no explic referenc to gay inty, though he thored d edorials agast the hypocrisi of the straight world.
Although gays had long been si-eyeg the emblems of straight masculy, Mizer fed them wh new meang: the very men who had looked stoic and impassive the straight magaz seemed, unr Mizer’s directn, to be havg fun. When David Hurl, the gay pornographer and Mizer protégé, was a teen-ager Ccnati, he glimpsed Physique Pictorial_ _at a newsstand and felt, as he put to Taschen, “stantly clud, as if the men were beckong him to look. ” It appealed, Coat wrote, “to the sick half-world of homosexuals, sadists, and masochists.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST GAY MALE NFL COACH
“Homosexualy was the standard way of life among the gged Greek warrrs, ” he wrote 1960. ” Dpe such objectns, he reportedly ma a fortune the eighti by distributg so-lled “ssn vios, ” rerdgs of photo shoots that then veered to more recreatnal Mizer’s Greek-warrr fixatn, ’s temptg to thk of him as one early source of the “body fascism” for which ntemporary gay-male culture is often maligned.
Mizer’s achievement, as a photographer and a publisher, was to take the standards of male bety as they existed and prove that gay men uld satisfy them, and be satisfied by them, too. Four s ago, the photographer Tom Bianchi began pturg the nearly 10, 000 gay men who every summer flocked to their En a specific part of New York’s Fire Island.
Matthew Morroc“This photograph serv as the ver of my photo book, Complic, which tells the story of relatnships wh olr gay men New York om 2010 to 2015. Photograph by Ey Manng“The first gay pri was a rt—not a logo, psule llectn, or rabow Shake Shack l. Photograph by Chris Smh“I remember that some of my earlit self-portras, taken while I was high school and still eply closeted, seemed like the only way that I uld privately exprs and see myself as the gay man that I knew I was.