Sean Patrick (1968). Mel Roberts’ photos have featured here before but it’s doubtful they will do again seeing as the photographer died in 2007 so we won’t see any more of his Californian boys. His complete archive, comprising several thousand prints, is up for sale as part of an auction which begins today. Out.com have [...]
Tad Bennett (1970s). Pictures by Mel Roberts (1923–2007), compulsive photographer of Californian men. Johan Larsen (1967). Previously on { feuilleton } • Mikel Marton • Exterface • California boys by Mel Roberts
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 [...]
Flickr set of (rare?) photos from a gay New York studio of the Fifties and Sixties. Previously on { feuilleton } • California boys by Mel Roberts
The Beach Boys got the California girls but it looks like Mel got the boys…some of them, anyway. Makes me wish I was back in Los Angeles again. More of Mel’s work here. Many of his models look like the “youngmen” of the period (late Sixties, early Seventies) that John Rechy writes about.
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