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You can just imagine the stylist standing off camera ready to readjust the hair if necessary, the assistants with their reflectors playing more light onto the body. His hair is teased up and beautifully styled, the grease is applied to his body just so, his body twisted to just the right degree to accentuate the muscles of the stomach and around the pelvis. not the ‘real’ thing, and this feeling of having been deceived has grown ever since. At the time I realised that the image of this man was a constructed fantasy, ie. I was drawn by the powerful, perfectly sculpted body, the butchness of his job, the dirty trousers, the boots and the body placed within a social context. Gay men flocked to buy it, myself included. In contemplation, his formal aestheticism confirms a serene beauty – spare, refined, erotic.įred with Tires became the archetypal photograph of the male body in the 1980s and made the world-wide reputation of its commercial photographer, Herb Ritts. I admit that I went through a stage of disliking Herb Ritts photographs – no longer! Jones VI, Herb Ritts Bodyshop Series, Herb Ritts Chrissy Turlington, Herb Ritts Corp et Âmes 14, Herb Ritts Djimon with Octopus, Herb Ritts Fred with Tires, Herb Ritts Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Herb Ritts Loriki with Spear, Herb Ritts Madonna (True Blue Profile), Herb Ritts Male Nude with Bubble, Herb Ritts Man with Chain, Herb Ritts Matthew McConaughey, Herb Ritts Now and Zen 1, Herb Ritts Tony Ward, Herb Ritts Tony with shadow, Herb Ritts Versace Dress Back View, Herb Ritts Versace Veiled Dress, Herb Ritts Waterfall IV, Herb Ritts Woman in Sea, Herb Ritts Wrapped Torso, Herb Ritts: Beauty and Celebrity, Hollywood, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Point Dume, Loriki with Spear, los angeles, Madonna, Madonna (True Blue Profile), Male Nude with Bubble, Man with Chain, Marcus Bunyan Pressing the Flesh, Marcus Bunyan Pressing the Flesh: Sex Body Image and the Gay Male, Matthew McConaughey, Now and Zen 1, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Palmdale, Point Dume, Pressing the Flesh: Sex Body Image and the Gay Male, Tony Ward, Tony with shadow Los Angeles, True Blue Profile, Versace, Versace Dress Back View El Mirage, Versace Veiled Dress, Waterfall IV, Woman in Sea HawaiiĮxhibition dates: 9th May – 28th July 2013įred with Tires – Bodyshop Series, Hollywood Jones VI, body image, Body Image and the Gay Male, celebrity, celebrity photographer, celebrity photography, celebrity portrait photography, Chrissy Turlington, Corp et Âmes 14, Djimon with Octopus, El Mirage, fashion photography, Fred with Tires, gay male body image, Hawaii, Herb Ritts, Herb Ritts Backflip Paradise Cove, Herb Ritts Bill T. Tags: American art, american artist, American contemporary photography, American fashion photography, American fine art photography, american photographer, American photography, Backflip Paradise Cove, beauty, Beauty and Celebrity, Bill T. Categories: American, american photographers, beauty, black and white photography, digital photography, exhibition, existence, gallery website, Marcus Bunyan, photographic series, photography and portrait