Not Just Another Pretty Face
Language: English
Published by Beautiful Dreamer Press, Nevada City, California, U.S.A., 2016
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaM. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books
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The book is signed by Louis Ceci, Lewis DeSimone, Erik Schuckers and David Pratt on the contents page. The book is near fine with slight edge wear.
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- Title
- Not Just Another Pretty Face
- Author
- Ceci, Louis Flint (Editor)
- Publisher
- Beautiful Dreamer Press, Nevada City, California, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0970831064
- ISBN 13
- 9780970831064
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
The stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single common element uniting their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys.
The ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object. We imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him, or as potent and aggressive so that we might be the focus of his desire. But the images captured here suggest deeper, more complex realities. These dancers are whimsical, haunting, satiric, playful, ominous. They are not objects, not icons, but stories waiting to be told.
Not Just Another Pretty Face plays with the interface of projections: what these young men project in their poses and expressions, and what we project on them in return. It explores assumptions, prejudices, fantasies, and revelations. It looks beyond the archetype, beneath the skin.
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About the Author
Dot (a.k.a. Tom Schmidt) has been photographing the gay scene in San Francisco for over a decade, covering drag shows, beer busts, sex workers, faerie gatherings, and street people. Sons of God (2011), his homoerotic recasting of "Bible story" images, won him recognition from mainstream galleries. His 2012 exhibition, Escort: The Classic Beauty of Male Sex Workers in San Francisco, was a feature of that year's Gay Pride celebration. He has had solo shows at Eros, Magnet, and Supperclub in San Francisco. His photos have appeared in M Magazine, RFD, and on the cover of Jonathan. He was a finalist for the 4th Annual Mike Ivanitsky Award for Photographic Excellence in 2011, and in 2012 he was runner up in the Pacific Art League's juried art show in Palo Alto, California.
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