Stories worth losing yourself in. Deep dives into gay visual culture, the art of the male form, and the platforms that actually deliver what they promise.
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...
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...
Herb Ritts photographed the male body the way other people photograph mountains — as something vast, elemental, shaped by forces larger than any indiv...
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...
