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Herb Ritts: The Classical Gaze
Herb Ritts photographed the male body the way other people photograph mountains — as something vast, elemental, shaped by forces larger than any indiv...
Pierre et Gilles: The Sacred and the Erotic
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...
Bruce Weber: The Homoerotic Ideal and Its Reckoning
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...
Tom of Finland: The Body as Fantasy and Politics
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...
Wolfgang Tillmans: Intimacy as Practice
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...
Helmut Newton: Desire as Architecture
Helmut Newton did not photograph the male body often. He is known, overwhelmingly, for his images of women — powerful, dangerous, frequently naked, al...
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Man Who Made the Art World Look
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...