A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Male objects of desire
Camilla Akrans borrows some Thirties’ style for the New York Times.
Horst Torso by George Hoyningen-Huene (1931).
“Horst” was Horst P Horst, Hoyningen-Huene’s lover at the
time and later a respected fashion photographer for Vogue.
Divers by George Hoyningen-Huene (1930).
Fashion shoot by Camilla Akrans for the New York Times, March 2007.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Decorative Age
• Vintage magazine art II
Andreas and Paulo photographed by John Andresen.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953
• John Andresen
The Beach Boys got the California girls but it looks like Mel got the boys…some of them, anyway. Makes me wish I was back in Los Angeles again. More of Mel’s work here. Many of his models look like the “youngmen” of the period (late Sixties, early Seventies) that John Rechy writes about.
Ballerina boy, Paris 2003.
Youssef Nabil colours his photographs so they look like antique hand-tinted prints. Plenty of striking examples on his site, including portraits of one of my favourite singers, Natacha Atlas.
Solitude (?) by Hans Thoma (no date).
A couple more examples of the Flandrin pose. There are other versions around but most are poor copies of the original. Hans Thoma (1839–1924) was a very conventional German artist whose work occasionally skirts the homoerotic, perhaps unintentionally. I may post some of his prints later. He produced another variation on the Flandrin pose entitled The Prodigal Son with the figure reversed.
An uncredited and undated photograph from a collection of vintage male nudes on Flickr. That looks like a Union flag so we can guess that photographer and model were British.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive