Rainbow Books - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Books.: Photo Books : David Leddick

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• Big Fun With Billy

  by David Leddick, Dianora Niccolini (Photographer) Billy has everything: a buff body, a high-powered New York job, even a beach house in Provincetown. But something's missing from this boytoy's fabulous life--a boyfriend. Along comes Carlos, a hunky fireman who shares Billy's passion for pumping up. But can these sculpted studs find true love in such a plastic world? Won't you come out and play with Billy, Carlos, and their friend Tyson? - Visit the site pop

• Male Nude Now

  by David Leddick As images of men's bodies have proliferated in pop culture and advertising during the past decade, many artists and photographers have taken up the male nude as a primary subject. Recent work has sparked controversy as well as praise for its shocking frankness, and the line between art and pornography has become increasingly difficult to define. New digital technologies have brought about new ways of representing the body, and we are now faced with a multiplicity of eroticisms, previously unexplored channels of desire, and more inclusive and varied body ideals. - Visit the site pop

• Men in the Sun

  by David Leddick This exciting collection gives a whole new meaning to "beach reading." Paired with some of the most exciting contemporary photographs of the male nude are reflections paying homage to the beauty, sensuality, and raw masculinity of men by celebrated writers including Quentin Crisp, Brad Gooch, Alan Helms, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Paul Roche, and David Leddick. Hot off the beaches of Miami, the book features fresh photography from some well-known artists as well as exciting newcomers, including Ali, Salvatore Baiano, Andy Devine, and Dianora Niccolini. Divided thematically into chapters like Men on the Beach, Men in the Surf, Men Cooling Off, and Men in the Shade, this celebration of men sans clothes al fresco is a treasure for those who like to look at some good, fresh flesh. - Visit the site

• Male Nude (TASCHEN Icons Series)

  by David Leddick (Editor) The very best and most impressive images from the original klotz of this title are included here- you'll find the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, David Hockney, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Pierre et Gilles, and even Chuck Close. For anyone who worships the male body or wants to know why others do... - Visit the site

• Intimate Companions

  A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle Photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein played a major role in creating the institutions of the American art world from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The three created a remarkable world of gay aesthetics and desire in art with the help of their overlapping circle of friends, lovers, and collaborators. Through hours of conversation with surviving members with their circle and unprecedented access to papers, journals, and previously unreleased photos, David Leddick has resurrected the influences of this now-vanished art world along with the lives and loves of all three artists in this groundbreaking biography. by David Leddick - Visit the site

• George Platt Lynes

  by David Leddick George Platt Lynes has to be one of the most influential of Twentieth Century American photographers. This beautifully printed book by David Leddick illustrates that. In his narrative, Mr. Leddick says that both Bruce Webber and Herb Ritts were influenced by Lynes. I would add Arnold Newman-- his environmental portraits recall those of Lynes--Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Shear and Arthur Tress, just to name a few. Mr. Leddick divides the photographs in five categories: portraits, ballet, nudes, fashion and mythology. The very first photograph in the series of portraits is one of Lynes' first ever, a stunning portrait of Gertrude Stein, proof that one can learn apertures and lighting but that genius is by birth. - Visit the site

• Naked Men

  by David Leddick (Author) This extraordinary book documents a fascinating moment in the history of American culture--a period in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's that gave birth to new notions of male beauty and desire, and to a new type of male icon. - Visit the site

• Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955

  by David Leddick This extraordinary book documents a fascinating moment in the history of American culture--a period in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's that gave birth to new notions of male beauty and desire, and to a new type of male icon. Long before Stonewall and the gay pride movement, there was a small group of daring men--both photographers and the models who sat for them--who helped pave the way for male sexual liberation. - Visit the site

• The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev

  by David Leddick PAVEL TCHELITCHEV was one of the most accomplished figurative artist's of his generation. Considered a member of the Neo-Romantic school of painting, his works reflect a sophisticated attention to the mystical forces of nature, especially that of the human body. Although his work is largely out of fashion now, his works were widely acclaimed during the height of his career in the 1940's. His dreamscapes were an evocation of complex metaphysical perspectives and were powerful statements about sexuality oeurve that has been ignored for too long. These images, completed during a ten year span from 1929-1939, reflect the artist's passion for the male form and his vision of uninhibited sexuality. Tchelitchew's male nudes live in a dream world, a dream of fulfillment, a dream free of guilt, where the body exists for beauty and has its purpose. These are dreams that were an important part of the artist's development- visions that deserve to be seen - Visit the site

• Naked Men, Too

  by David Leddick A remarkable sequel to the Lambda award-winning Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1900-1950, Naked Men, Too, exposes the breakthrough nude male photography and art that changed the perception of male beauty. Focusing on the work of influential photographers such as George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Harriet Leibowitz, and Bruce Weber, author David Leddick chronicles the visual revolution that paralleled social and sexual liberation since the late 1950's. With brief biographies of the models, including early renegades like Yves St. Laurent, Joe Dallesandro, Rupert Everett and more-this provocative book features reproductions of the original photos alongside portraits of the models today. This dynamic history of male nudity in art and advertising is for all audiences, gay and straight. - Visit the site

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