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AMG Gallery & News: Premiere Issue! Summer 1986
AU$20 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn-Paul Kennington; Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1986.Catalogue of models from the later blatantly homoerotic years of Bob Mizer’s AMG, the physique photography powerhouse behind the most popular of beefcake magazines. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Terribly Awesome Photo Books
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartPaul Kooiker; Erik Kessels
[Gent]: Art Paper Editions, 2012.“For several years, Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have organized evenings for friends in which they share the strangest photo books in their collections. The books shown are rarely available in regular shops, but are picked up in thrift stores and from antiquaries. The groups fascination for these pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. Its only in this area that its possible to find images with an uncontrived quality. Whats noticeable from these publications is that theres a thin line between being terrible and being awesome. This constant tension makes the books interesting. Its also worth noting that these tomes all fall within certain categories: the medical, instructional, scientific, sex, humour or propaganda. Paul Kooiker and Erik Kessels have made a selection of their finest books from within this questionable new genre.” (publisher’s blurb)