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Wolfgang Tillmans does not make his images look like art. This is the most deliberate thing about them. A Tillmans photograph might be a man's torso...
There is a Bruce Weber photograph from 1982 — shot for Calvin Klein, which means it appeared on billboards, in magazines, on the sides of buses — of a...
Rotimi Fani-Kayode photographed the Black gay male body at a moment — London in the 1980s — when no one else was doing it with anything approaching hi...
Touko Laaksonen drew men who did not exist in 1950s Finland. He drew them into existence anyway. This is the essential biographical fact about the ar...
Ryan McGinley's photographs look like the feeling of being twenty-two and briefly, completely certain that everything is going to be fine. The bodies...
Jack Pierson makes photographs that feel like something you remember rather than something you saw. The light is a little overexposed. The composition...
There is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe of a man named Thomas in a three-piece suit. The suit is impeccably cut. Thomas is seated, composed, his...
Helmut Newton did not photograph the male body often. He is known, overwhelmingly, for his images of women — powerful, dangerous, frequently naked, al...
A Pierre et Gilles image arrives fully formed and demands nothing of you except that you look. The colours are impossible — saturated past anything th...
Herb Ritts photographed the male body as if it were a landscape — something vast, elemental, shaped by forces larger than any individual will. His men...
