Essay / review: ‘In camera and in public’ at the Centre for Contemporary...
Exhibition dates: 16th September – 23rd October 2011 The Melbourne Festival Curator Naomi Cass Artists ASIO de-classified photos and footage, Denis Beaubois (France/Australia), Luc Delahaye (France),...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th November 2011 – 12th February 2012 . “The possibility of using our bodies as a possible source of very numerous pleasures is something that is very important. For instance, if...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Bob Mizer: ARTIFACTS’ at Invisible-Exports, New York
Exhibition dates: 14th December 2012 – 27th January 27 2013 . ** Warning this posting contains male nudity – oh no! ** There are some appealing but relatively tame photographs from one of the doyens of...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ at The...
Exhibition dates at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 11th October 2012 – 27th January 2013 . What a fascinating subject. Having completed multiple exposure work under the black and white enlarger I can...
View ArticleText: ‘Transgressive Topographies, Subversive Photographies, Cultural...
. Upsetting the court of public opinion… A very interesting article, Covering their arts by John Elder (October 13, 2013 ), examines the controversy over Bill Henson’s images of children sparked an age...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Masculine / Masculine: The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the...
Exhibition dates: 24th September 2013 – 2nd January 2014 . The von Gloeden is stunning and some of the paintings are glorious: the muscularity / blood red colour in Falguière by Lutteurs d’Alexandre...
View ArticlePhotographs and text: George Platt Lynes and the male nude
*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF MALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN* Man Ray George Platt Lynes 1927 The greatest photographer...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History’ at the ONE...
Exhibition dates: 29th June – 7th September 2014 These were the only press images I could get for this exhibition. I would have liked to have seen many more! Marcus . Many thankx to the ONE Archives...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 8th February – 5th October 2014 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor Curators: Organized by Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, with Lucy...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2016 – 26th February 2017 An exhibition showcasing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer artistic life in New York City through the social networks of Leonard...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John...
Exhibition dates: 10th November 2016 – 7th May 2017 Many thankx to Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
View ArticleText / Exhibition: ‘The Unflinching Gaze: photo media and the male figure’ at...
Exhibition dates: 14th October – 3rd December, 2017 Curator: Richard Perram OAM Todd Fuller and Amy Hill (Australia, 1988-; Australia, 1988-) They’re Only Words 2009 Film, sound duration: 2:42...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Sensual/Sexual/Social: The Photography of George Platt Lynes’ at...
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2018 – 24th February 2019 Curators: Rebecca Fasman, of the Kinsey Institute, and Robin Lawrence and Anne M. Young of Newfields George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) Name...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland’ at The Museum Of Contemporary Art,...
Exhibition dates: 2nd November 2013 – 26th January 2014 MOCA Pacific Design Center *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART WORK OF MALE NUDITY AND EROTIC IMAGES OF GAY MALE SEX – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE...
View ArticleText: “Historical Pressings” chapter from Marcus Bunyan’s PhD research...
November 2022 Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801-1887) Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man 1840 Direct Positive Print Public domain Since the demise of my old website, my PhD research Pressing the...
View ArticleText: “Historical Pressings” chapter from Marcus Bunyan’s PhD research...
November 2022 Warning: this text contains images of male nudity Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801-1887) Self portrait as a drowned man 18 October 1840 Direct positive print Public domain Since the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘FOTOGAGA: Max Ernst and Photography. A Visit from the Würth...
Exhibition dates: 18th October, 2024 – 27th May, 2025 Curators: Katja Böhlau and Ludger Derenthal, Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976)Frontispiece1921From...
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