A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
East of Paracelsus, a view from Apollo 15 (1971).
One of a number of photographs from the Apollo missions being taken out of cold storage in Arizona and scanned at very high resolution, should you need a 1.3 GB image of the lunar surface. I was totally obsessed with the Apollo missions when I was a kid so I’m looking forward to more of this kind of imagery, especially at super-high res.
For other Moon pictures, Flickr is gradually accumulating shots of this week’s lunar eclipse.
A picture I hadn’t seen before: swimmer Greg Louganis photographed by Herb Ritts in 1987.
Further examples of the Flandrin pose from photographer Amat Nimitpark. Not sure what’s going on in the picture above but the scene below finds a use for a nearly-nude male that would no doubt have surprised Jean Hippolyte Flandrin. Needless to say, I can think of a few other uses for this blue-eyed boy…
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive
Dancer by Felix D’Eon at his Flickr pages. His artwork based on the photos, including some gay erotica, can be seen at his website.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Dancers by John Andresen
• Youssef Nabil
• Images of Nijinsky
• The art of Hubert Stowitts, 1892–1953
Portrait of Mephisto #1 (2006).
Portrait of Mephisto #5 (2006).
The carefully-constructed and coloured tableaux of Shanghai-based art Maleonn Ma remind me of Joel-Peter Witkin‘s grainier and nastier works only without the body parts or dead babies. The repeated use of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam in contemporary culture is a whole subject in itself.
Via Phantasmaphile.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Behold the (naked) man
• Sculptural collage: Eduardo Paolozzi
• Michelangelo revisited