In the Studio - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312243049 ISBN 13: 9780312243043

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999

Synopsis

Eschewing the settings normally associated with his art (outdoors or poolside, on the sand and in the surf) , Bianchi has created his most intimate and erotic portrayal of gay men in these revealing `studio` shots.

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Review

For years, Tom Bianchi thought certain of his photographic studies of male nudes were unpublishable, too frankly erotic. Then a mentor explained to him that "the better pictures were the ones which took the viewer behind closed doors." For In the Studio, Bianchi frees himself from all restraints, reveling in male bodies galore. (If artwork that contains even the suggestion of sexuality offends you, consider yourself warned.) Quite a few of the photographs play with the idea of images and representation, as Bianchi poses his models in front of life-size drawings and mirrors, and even makes the occasional appearance in the mirror himself, a camera held tightly to his eye. In Richard/Bound, Bianchi reenacts the Prometheus myth, substituting a gradually ripped jockstrap for the eating of the liver, bringing the series of photos--and the model--to a provocative climax. "Authority is inevitably impotent to suppress the beauty I see," Bianchi exults. In the Studio certainly puts paid to that assessment.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312243049
• ISBN 13: 9780312243043
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96