Portrait Pics
15 Photographs By Peter Hujar (A Tribute)
Peter Hujar was born 1934 in Trenton, New Jersey and later moved to Manhattan, where he died of AIDS in 1987 (you can see the appartment he lived in in Ira Sachs’ film “Last Adress” I posted below). His first book “Portraits in Life and Death” came with an introduction by Susan Sontag and was published in 1976 – it was also the only book by him ever published. Hujar was the one-time partner and mentor of artist David Wojnarowicz, below see a couple of portrait pictures he shot of him (a few of them are NSFW). Like most of Hujar’s pictures, they were shot in black and white. His estate is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery.
David Wojnarowicz, 1981
The Moroccan Bride, 1987
Daniel Schoock Sucking Toe, 1981
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Benjamin Fredrickson About His “Men”-Series (Part II)
Second part of the feature. Click here for the first one.
“TJ”
“I met TJ one early afternoon on Adam4Adam, a gay hookup website. I went over to his place near the University of Minnesota campus. His roommates weren’t home; when I got there he started sucking my dick right away. Then we moved to his room, just so that we wouldn’t risk getting walked in on. He mentioned that he was still hung-over from the night before, so was I. We 69’d on his mattress; I ate his beautiful ass while he sucked my dick. I had set my glasses aside, near the mattress, as we changed positions TJ managed to step on my glasses, new glasses at that. So after he shot a large load on his stomach I asked if I could take his portrait. I got the impression that he didn’t want to but did so because he had just broken my glasses. My camera was in the other room. As I reached for it someone, his roommate was getting home and I think he caught a glimpse of my bare ass as I scurried back into the bedroom with my camera. Adrenaline was running high. So I quickly put on my broken glasses and tried to focus my camera at the same time. Snapped a few shots, had him sign a model release and then said goodbye. It all worked out, this is one of my favorite shots.”
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Photographer Benjamin Fredrickson About His “Men”-Series (Part I)
“Self portrait with Louie”
“I first started documenting my intimate moments with a Polaroid Spectra camera. It was a way for me to document my sexual escapades. For me it was creating and keeping a memento from an otherwise lonely sexual experience that usually wasn’t satisfying at all. I was having a lot of sex, meeting guys online through sites like Manhunt and Adam4Adam. Of course not every man that I met was okay with me taking instant photos of our sexual encounter. If I had a photo of every encounter I would have a shit ton of images!
Eventually I became an escort and as the money rolled in I was able to buy and upgrade my equipment and buy more and more Polaroid film. Around this time I also realized that I truly had a passion for photography and documenting my intimate moments – I then started shooting on film with my Pentax 67II, the camera that I hadn’t touched since college, and that is how the “Men“ series came about. Since I was shooting on medium format film it was a little more work, and required more patience from the subject. With that in mind I began photographing friends as well as lovers and random online hookups. This is a project that I intend to keep working on, even as I start new projects.”
“Kael”
“I had never met Kael in person before I photographed him. I knew of him through mutual friends. Something about him intrigued me; I think it was that he looked so sprightly. I eventually met him at his apartment; he was full of energy and had a great smile and laugh, it was refreshing. He was very comfortable in his own skin and didn’t have an issue-posing nude for me. Kael has an amazing body – and a great ass! He had shown me these really sexy photos of himself that were taken on a trip to Iceland. The ones that stood out were close ups of his ass half submerged in water- the water lapping at the roundness of his supple bubble butt. It was difficult for me to not get an erection as I photographed him that day. I took his portrait in his roommate Jesse’s bedroom, I liked how the windows were covered in newsprint so I made him a paper hat to wear, and it just felt right. Kael was fun to work with. His confidence in himself really turned me on!”
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Carlos Sáez Ripoll by Luca Guarini
Posted by Hanno ON July 18, 2010 |
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Garçons #4: A Small Preview
Garçons is a post-porn pin-up-magazine from Chile. Click here for the current issue.
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The Work Of Collier Schorr (II): Nature
Collier Schorr and I have something in common: We have a special relationship to Schwäbisch Gmünd, a smalltown in Southern Germany, not far away from the city of Stuttgart. In my case it’s because parts of my family live down there, in Schorr’s case it’s the family and friends of her girlfriend that live there, which is the reason why for already 19 years now she visits this place once a year. Her time in Schwäbisch Gmünd Schorr has always spend investigating the environment and the nature of that area as well as portraying the people living there – especially the adolescent ones (of course). The photographs above and below give a little insight on this part of Schorrs work – more of their kind, especially of her flower-”arrangements”, can be found in her books “Flowers” and “Forest and Fields”. I also just found this interview with Schorr about her pictures taken in nature a while ago, it’s been published by Dossier Journal. Part I of the Collier Schorr series here.
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Philippe Castetbon: The Condemned
The Condemnet (“Les condamnés”) is a book project by French journalist Philippe Castetbon who has contacted young gay men from countries where homosexuality is agains the law online and asked them for a self-portrait and a short personal text about their life situations. Here are some photos taken from the book and a promotional video, let me know what you think about this project. An exhibition of the pictures is currently shown at the Médiathèque Federico Fellini in Montpellier/France. By the way: “Les condamnés” in French means “The Convicted” or even just “Convicts” and not exactly “The Condemned”, as a translator points out here.
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The Work Of Collier Schorr (I): Wrestlers
This is the first part of a series of postings that will show works of artist and fashion photographer Collier Shorr, who I’m officially a fan of now. Shorr was born in New York City in 1963 and studied at the the School of the Visual Arts, New York and is especially known for her portraits of adolescent men and women which question simplyfing ideas of indentity, especially from a gender perspective. The pictures below are part of a series for which she photographed wrestlers, mainly of the Blair academy wrestling team. Click here for a an Interview with Schorr about her fascination for wrestling on Art:21 or, if you’re too lazy to read, just watch the video I posted below the photographs where she explains her approach. Portrait above © Deutsche Guggenheim und Maciek Kobielski
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