A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Male objects of desire
Nijinski I (2006).
More photographs and montages by Hernan Gimenez at his ArtsCad pages. Via Fabulon.
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• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The art of Andrey Avinoff, 1884–1949
• The Decorative Age
• Images of Nijinsky
The Flandrin pose returns in a photograph for the Adonis series by Brent Dundore. Flandrin was striving for a Classical simplicity in his original painting and the quasi-Classical seat in this picture seems to be doing the same. This might easily become a line drawing like those produced by John Flaxman, a contemporary of Flandrin’s whose work was inspired by Classical sources.
“Athena in the form of Penelope’s sister tells the queen of the return of her son Telemachus” from illustrations for The Odyssey by John Flaxman (1810).
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• The recurrent pose archive
Ian with headphone.
Photographs by Brandon Herman at the David Gallery, Culver City, CA. The exhibition runs from September 8th–October 13th, 2007.
In BrandonHermanLand the subjects are absorbed in their own intensely private worlds, whether it be cleaning the pool, contemplating a baseball in bed, or skateboarding nude at night. Herman’s talent as a photographer lies in managing to get his subjects to bare their souls as well as their bodies to the viewer.
Via Towleroad.
Untitled (Patrick swimming hole) (2006).
A picture I hadn’t seen before: swimmer Greg Louganis photographed by Herb Ritts in 1987.
Further examples of the Flandrin pose from photographer Amat Nimitpark. Not sure what’s going on in the picture above but the scene below finds a use for a nearly-nude male that would no doubt have surprised Jean Hippolyte Flandrin. Needless to say, I can think of a few other uses for this blue-eyed boy…
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive