Naked Men, Too: Liberating the Male Nude, 1950-2000

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 1950s. 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.