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R. Massengill THE MALE IDEAL foto's/bio Lon of New York -gay
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The book has many illustrations which unfortunately cannot be shown fully here.
From the internet:
"Long before Bruce Weber or Herb Ritts picked up a camera, there was a photographer whose images glorified the male nude. But Alonzo Hanagan, better known as Lon of New York, was working during the 1940s and 1950s, when images of the male nude were not just illicit but illegal. Twice, his studio was raided and his negatives destroyed by police. Many of the images in this book thus exist only as prints purchased by collectors at the time.
Now, for the first time in more than forty years, these photos are published in one comprehensive collection that recovers this lost body of work. Suffused with a coy playfulness and a naïve vulnerability, these erotic images of men evoke a time of greater innocence but also of greater suppression, revealing much about gay history and the history of photography.
Reed Massengill, himself a photographer specializing in the male nude, became a close companion and confidante to Lon of New York and has complete access to Lon's archive and unequalled knowledge of his career."
And from a review:
"The photographs brought together here by R. Massengill in "The Male Ideal: Lon of New York and the Masculine Physique" is that collection. These are beautiful images of beautiful young men, many of them presented as full-page plates rather than as among several pictures on a single page. The photos themselves are crisp and clean copies presented on good quality paper. an important feature in allowing the full beauty of the models and of Lon's vision to come through. Unlike the first book of Lon's work I bought, there are few of the silly props -- faux Roman military helmets for instance -- in this collection. The photos selected for this book generally reference classical Greek sculpture of the male physique or classic body-building poses in the era when body-building focused more on the aesthetics of the male form verses the ability to pack on mounds and mounds of raw muscle by any means necessary that it became in the Dorian Yates era and beyond.
Massengill organizes these photos by decade from the 1930s through the '50s/early 60s, and identifies most of the models by name, some of whom where prominent in the world of competitive body-building when these photos were taken.
His biography of Lon's life is fairly detailed, quite moving and often sad when we learn of the police harassment, the mass destruction of so much of his work and how Lon was driven from physique photography by targeted prosecutions before fading into obscurity and poverty in later life. The saving grace in this story was how a revival of interest in this genre in the 1990s brought Lon new celebrity and a bit of income from his work before his death in December 1998. It is a deeply moving story and I'm glad Messengill included it here. I couldn't recommend this collection more enthusiastically."
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Universe; First Edition edition (March 4, 2004)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 11 inches (21,6 x 1,5 x 27,9 cm)
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (765 gr.)
Condition:
The book itself is new. All pages are undamaged, have no underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. In fact: the book has not been used/read.
Front and back cover are like new.
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Verzendkosten: €4,25 (brievenbuspakje met track&trace). Gecombineerd verzenden mogelijk. Zie mijn andere advertenties.
From the internet:
"Long before Bruce Weber or Herb Ritts picked up a camera, there was a photographer whose images glorified the male nude. But Alonzo Hanagan, better known as Lon of New York, was working during the 1940s and 1950s, when images of the male nude were not just illicit but illegal. Twice, his studio was raided and his negatives destroyed by police. Many of the images in this book thus exist only as prints purchased by collectors at the time.
Now, for the first time in more than forty years, these photos are published in one comprehensive collection that recovers this lost body of work. Suffused with a coy playfulness and a naïve vulnerability, these erotic images of men evoke a time of greater innocence but also of greater suppression, revealing much about gay history and the history of photography.
Reed Massengill, himself a photographer specializing in the male nude, became a close companion and confidante to Lon of New York and has complete access to Lon's archive and unequalled knowledge of his career."
And from a review:
"The photographs brought together here by R. Massengill in "The Male Ideal: Lon of New York and the Masculine Physique" is that collection. These are beautiful images of beautiful young men, many of them presented as full-page plates rather than as among several pictures on a single page. The photos themselves are crisp and clean copies presented on good quality paper. an important feature in allowing the full beauty of the models and of Lon's vision to come through. Unlike the first book of Lon's work I bought, there are few of the silly props -- faux Roman military helmets for instance -- in this collection. The photos selected for this book generally reference classical Greek sculpture of the male physique or classic body-building poses in the era when body-building focused more on the aesthetics of the male form verses the ability to pack on mounds and mounds of raw muscle by any means necessary that it became in the Dorian Yates era and beyond.
Massengill organizes these photos by decade from the 1930s through the '50s/early 60s, and identifies most of the models by name, some of whom where prominent in the world of competitive body-building when these photos were taken.
His biography of Lon's life is fairly detailed, quite moving and often sad when we learn of the police harassment, the mass destruction of so much of his work and how Lon was driven from physique photography by targeted prosecutions before fading into obscurity and poverty in later life. The saving grace in this story was how a revival of interest in this genre in the 1990s brought Lon new celebrity and a bit of income from his work before his death in December 1998. It is a deeply moving story and I'm glad Messengill included it here. I couldn't recommend this collection more enthusiastically."
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Universe; First Edition edition (March 4, 2004)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 11 inches (21,6 x 1,5 x 27,9 cm)
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (765 gr.)
Condition:
The book itself is new. All pages are undamaged, have no underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. In fact: the book has not been used/read.
Front and back cover are like new.
Graag serieus bieden.
Verzendkosten: €4,25 (brievenbuspakje met track&trace). Gecombineerd verzenden mogelijk. Zie mijn andere advertenties.