Albert Anker ... Albert Anker, né le 1ᵉʳ avril 1831 et mort le 16 juillet 1910 à Anet, est un illustrateur et peintre suisse. On l'appelle souvent le « peintre national » de la Suisse en raison de ses représentations populaires de la vie rurale de son pays au XIXᵉ siècle.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Boris Talberg ... Born in 1930, Boris Talberg was an extraordinary painter, muralist and a graphic artist. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (MIPIDI) at the faculty of monumental painting in GI Rublev (1949-1952) and at the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after VI Fly (LVHPU them. Mukhina) (1952-1953). The main subject matter in Talberg’s paintings is sports, primarily gymnastics. Much of his work resides in the collection of the Belgorod State Art Museum. He worked in various techniques and genres of monumental and decorative art, as well as in the field of easel painting (plot-thematic painting, portrait) and graphics. “Images of the Master”, is one of the often used expressions of the artistic conception of the 1960’s in the field of monumental painting, the fight against neoacademism. Honoured Artist of the RSFSR, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, laureate of Lenin Komsomol Prize and the USSR State Prize. Talberg received the State Prize of the USSR in 1981 for his work "Hospitable Russia." He is an author of mosaic panels on the museum-panorama "Battle of Borodino" facade in Moscow. Today, his mosaics are included in the register of historical and cultural monuments of Moscow and on the List of World Heritage Sites.