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Untitled photo print.
A fantastic exhibition of photographs, drawings and engravings by Raymond Carrance, aka Czanara, opens today at Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art, New York, running until June 21, 2008. For those of us who can’t get to see it there’s a selection of the works on show at their site which immediately increases […]

Photos by Konrad Helbig (1917–1986) from his Ragazzi portraits of Sicilian boys covering the period 1950–1969. A book collection of these appeared from Edition Braus a few years ago but now seems to be out of print.

Previously on { feuilleton }
• Les Demi Dieux revisited
• Les Demi Dieux
• California boys by Mel Roberts
• Erotic flicks

Florimond by Jean-Philippe Guillemain.

The Flandrin pose again, this time in a photograph by George Platt Lynes (1907–1955). This is from a Flickr set of Lynes’ work which was a nice find since many of the web collections are small and tend to repeat the same material.

The picture above isn’t from the Flickr set, it’s a scan from Philip […]

left: In The Belly of Nature (self-portrait) by Rudolph Koppitz (1923).
right: Ritti with Rod, North Sea, Germany by Herbert List (1933).
Vintage/Vantage is an exhibition of classic homoerotic photography of the 19th and 20th century at Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art, NYC. Examples range from Muybridge’s human locomotion experiments, through von Gloeden’s Mediterranean boys to […]

Pas de Deux (1968).
News of a theatre piece celebrating the creativity of Norman McLaren, the pioneering Scots (and gay) animator and film-maker, had me searching YouTube again for his work. His short film Neighbours (1952) is very well-known, oft-cited and imitated for its pixillated character movement. No surprise to see it there, then, along with […]

Valery photographed by Paul Roberts, discovered following some random browsing at deviantART. More of a direct Flandrin pose than some of the entries posted earlier in this series. Valery is a very cute model and there’s lots more photos of him from this session.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive

Dean by photographer Chris Summerfield.

Homophobia rife in British society, landmark equality survey finds

It’s that pose again. Well, almost…I imagine that rock was a bit of a rough surface to sit on. Photo from this MySpace page.
Thanks Thom!
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive