{"product_id":"the-male-ideal-lon-of-new-york-and-the-masculine-physique","title":"The Male Ideal: Lon of New York and the Masculine Physique","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong before Bruce Weber or Herb Ritts picked up a camera  there was a photographer whose images glorified the male nude. But Alonzo Hanagan  better known as Lon of New York  was working during the 1940s and 1950s  when images of the male nude were not just illicit but illegal. Twice  his studio was raided and his negatives destroyed by police. Many of the images in this book thus exist only as prints purchased by collectors at the time.  Now  for the first time in more than forty years  these photos are published in one comprehensive collection that recovers this lost body of work. Suffused with a coy playfulness and a nave vulnerability  these erotic images of men evoke a time of greater innocence but also of greater suppression  revealing much about gay history and the history of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964105682997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0789309963","price":101.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780789309969_1671b744-3463-403a-8b08-430bcbb3f177.jpg?v=1770449155","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-male-ideal-lon-of-new-york-and-the-masculine-physique","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}