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[rexbobcat]

The lighting in my apartment is nice. And the walls don't have that stupid 1950's esque fake wood molding.



Kinda wish the left arm wasn't in this one but I photoshopped it out and it looks weird so I'm kind of glad it's there just for the sake of naturalness(??)

 

[mmaria]

oh love these!

 

[Braineack]

nipple hair you could carpet your dining room with

 

[rexbobcat]

oh love these!

Thanks! It's a bit different than my normal stuff so I'm glad I got a response. Lol

 

[rexbobcat]

nipple hair you could carpet your dining room with

"Winter is coming."

 

[FITBMX]

I like the lighting, and they seem like an overall good set!

 

[mmaria]

oh love these!

Thanks! It's a bit different than my normal stuff so I'm glad I got a response. Lol

I like your semi-nudes or however it's called... still remember that black guy (dancer) you shot. Just beautiful

I'm not used to look at men's bodies this way and these photographs give me some weird sensations. Sensuality is not something I associate with men, and your photographs are sensual. I love them because of that and because I react on the way how you shot and chose to present them.

keep shooting and posting

 

[Forkie]

Cor, what I wouldn't do to ya!

Like these - good lighting and nicely, subtly separated from the background. Not an easy thing to do well - especially self portraits. Good work.

 

[rexbobcat]

oh love these!

Thanks! It's a bit different than my normal stuff so I'm glad I got a response. Lol

I like your semi-nudes or however it's called... still remember that black guy (dancer) you shot. Just beautiful

I'm not used to look at men's bodies this way and these photographs give me some weird sensations. Sensuality is not something I associate with men, and your photographs are sensual. I love them because of that and because I react on the way how you shot and chose to present them.

keep shooting and posting

Thank you! The male nude in art has always been a strange thing. In the past, the sensual part of the male nude has often been just a subtext or a suggestion, but not overt. However, the female form in art has been sensualized/sexualized to some extent all throughout history. You have La Olimpia, for example, which is a famous (and often replicated) painting by Manet. It's a nude woman lying on a bed, however, certain details have been placed in the image to signify that she is a prostitute. Then there's "Dejeuner sur l'herbe," (also by Manet) featuring a woman nude in a park among a group of clothed men. And there's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Picasso, featuring, again, female prostitutes. The list goes on and on.

In photography especially it seems that the female nude is prominent. If you search "fine art nude photography" on Google, almost every image is of nude women. It seems that often, depending on how much is shown, the sensual female nude in photography is more likely to be considered fine art, while the sensual male nude is more likely to be considered porn...Or just...not as artistic maybe (??).

Maybe it's because the art world is still dominated by mostly men, or maybe men are just more visually stimulated by the human form, thus making the female nude much more popular/marketable? I don't know.

What I'm saying is that it's understandable that you wouldn't consider the male nude to be sensual, since it's not nearly as popular as portrayals of female sensuality/sexuality. I'm glad you like the photos and that they gave you a different perspective on things.

(I'm not an art buff, however, so my interpretations and speculations are only based on what I know of classical art. Take them with a grain of salt. )

 

[photoguy99]

I have this vague impression that well known/respected male nudes are sculpture. Somehow it's OK to carve a naked dude out of marble but not to paint one.

Maybe. Pretty effed up if true.

 

[snerd]

"The male body is so.............. utilitarian." - Elaine Benes


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[kdthomas]

Nice work ... I like the satiny highlights, and the bronzey skin texture ... the gradual falloff toward the bottom of the frame.

I'm normally not a fan of a lot of midtones, but this really works well for me

 

[rexbobcat]

"The male body is so.............. utilitarian." - Elaine Benes


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Maybe that's what makes it great - something different than the "classical" beauty of the female form? I mean, it's not like there's any shortage of black and white boobs and butts (shot, typically, by 40 year old men)

 

[rexbobcat]

"The male body is so.............. utilitarian." - Elaine Benes


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[kdthomas]

Maybe that's what makes it great - something different than the "classical" beauty of the female form?

That was one of the things I loved about Mapplethorpe ... he could make shots of males just as aesthetically pleasing as females.