Alan Lyon ... Alan Lyon loved taking pictures since he took his first photography class in high school, and he is inspired by the love he has for his home city. He has photographed many different subjects, scenes, and mo-ments. There's a picture around every corner. He is surrounded both by natural beauty and interesting people. He uses his camera to document the world and then print that magic for others to share with him. His focus is in male photography art, specifically ridding of shame and welcoming acceptance. His photos tell his story. Through his prints and photo books, he invites you to bring bits of his stories into your life and home."And your art captures something that seems to have disappeared from gay life with mainstreaming. There is a freedom and fun, frolic nature.” He believes his work is a mirror verse, a window; none of his images photoshop out anything.

 

John Dugdale ... John Dugdale (born 1960 in Connecticut) is an American art photographer. Internationally renowned he creates poignant and stirringly intimate imagery using 19th century photographic processes and a 19th century aesthetic. At the age of 33, Dugdale had a transformative experience of nearly total blindness due to a stroke and CMV retinitis, an HIV-related illness. Completely blind in his right eye, Dugdale found himself seeing with less than twenty percent visibility in his left eye. While blindness ended his successful commercial photography career, he found himself free to explore his fine art, using friends and family members as studio assistants.

 

Franz Fleissner ... Franz Fleissner is based in Sweden. He has been producing pictures for many years and his work has been published in several art photography books and magazines such as The Romantic Male Nude, Studio magazines, (Australia) and Playgirl Magazine.” After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts School in Sweden he found a new passion (and soon to be obsession) in photography and started his first photographic projects in 1995. With a background In fine art potography Franz found his inspiration in the great masters of painting and soon adapted the classical lighting as used when sculpting and painting. He also found the genre which inspired him the most – the male nude accentuated as “macho”. It also turned out that Sweden was the perfect base for this genre with an excellent range of good looking male models, and with the liberal people living in the North it has not been too difficult finding them.

 

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Daniel Nassoy ... Photographe spécialisé en nu masculin, portrait et nature. La trajectoire de de Daniel Nassoy a commencé par la création avec des moyens très simples – quelques lumières, une tenture noire – d’un petit théâtre nocturne où il explore les corps nus masculins. De nombreux modèles se prêtent à ce jeu fantasmatique, où l’objectif tend un miroir aux désirs et aux rêves de chacun. Depuis 2014 il travaille sur une série plus revendicative «Cartes du corps» pour soutenir le combat contre l’homophobie et le rejet et la condamnation des personnes lgbt.

 

Bruce Bellas ... Bruce Bellas (1909-1974) was an influential photographer of male nudes. Bellas was well known under the pseudonym Bruce of Los Angeles. Bellas was known to travel around the country, finding new models to photograph and also personally delivering nude photographs to customers, since they were liable to be seized by postal inspectors if sent through the mail.

 

Tom Saint Clair ... Tom Saint Clair est un photographe français spécialisé dans la photographie fitness & de mode. Sa conception est simple: du naturel et de la diversité. En studio son travail s'attache bien évidemment, dans le respect des règles académiques, à mettre en valeur la plastique de ses modèles. Mais plus que tout, il aime fixer par la photographie leur environnement, suivre ses modèles dans leur quotidien à la manière d'un reportage ou d'une caméra indiscrète. Pas d'artifice, capturer l'instant, la vie, la fraicheur du moment avec toute la spontanéité qu'elle offre.

 

Earl Forbes ... Earl Forbes, a vintage New York-based photographer, used a handheld Kodak Brownie camera to shoot physique photographs. Although Forbes photographed his models almost exclusively in the nude, most of his photographs were published only in physique magazines, and therefore, images without the painted posing strap are somewhat rare. He was active in 1940 years.