The Male Nude Now: New Visions for the 21st Century
Male Nudes Now offers an essential guide through this new territory with more than 240 fresh and provocative images. Recent work has sparked controversy as well as praise for its shocking frankness, and the line between art and pornography has become increasingly difficult to define.
Lighting for Nude Photography
This is NOT a PhotoShop book, it's NOT for people looking for info on POST-PROCESSING. It is however a great book if you want to learn about lighting; what to do and look for BEFORE you take the shot. Contrary to the title, you can learn about more than just "Lighting for Nude Photography"; the nude is just one type of portrait.
Self-Exposure : The Male Nude Self-Portrait
Self-Exposure features more than 100 works from both established masters and up-and-coming photographers–many never before published. This groundbreaking collection traces the development of the male self-portrait from its earliest beginnings with such greats as Hippolyte Bayard, Herbert Tobias, and André Kertész, to the contemporary efforts of such artists as John Dugdale, Anthony Goicolea, and Yasumasa Morimura. Each artist takes a uniquely individual approach ranging from the shockingly perverse and aggressively erotic to the elusively self-conscious and sublimely beautiful.
Male Nudes (Passionate Pursuits S.)
Stunning combination: Francois Rousseau, famous photographer, author of Modern adventurers, together with Philippe Castetbon, present a considerable collection of portraits and explicit photographs of nude men.
Male Nudes by Women: An Anthology
This book is recommended for all who enjoy the beautiful geometry of the human body and the contented irony of the modeling world as seen through a woman's eye. I am moved to say there is no such work as pornography, only pictures.
Adonis: Masterpieces of Erotic Male Photography
ADONIS is a stunning collection of nearly 200 of the best erotic photographs of the male form, in both black and white and color, featuring the work of some of the world's seminal fashion, portrait and erotic photographers. Photographers whose work appears as part of this important collection include Horst P. Horst, Nan Goldin, Greg Gorman, Doris Kloster, Rob Lang, Mark Morrisroe, Richard Phibbs, Pierre et Gilles, Herb Ritts, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Trevor Watson.
Naked Men, Too: Liberating the Male Nude, 1950-2000
Naked Men, Too, exposes the breakthrough nude male photography and art that changed the perception of male beauty. Focusing on the work of influential photographers such as George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Harriet Leibowitz, and Bruce Weber, author David Leddick chronicles the visual revolution that paralleled social and sexual liberation since the late 1950's.
