Daniel Wenger on Bob Mizer, who found the first gay magaze the U.S., Physique Pictorial, and specialized photographg buff young men.
Contents:
- THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
- BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
- 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY 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.
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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. 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.
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
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… * gay photographers instagram *
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.