Ed Freeman: Work

Ed Freemans male nudes are a celebration of the athlectic beauty of the male body. This is sometimes in the form of perfect inscenations created with help of the computer which convey a cool dramatic sense which is almost sacral. On the other hand Freeman is also a master in classic single and couple portraits created with a perfection light quality taken in intense moments full of strength, erotic but also tenderness. Due to the fact that his models are all unique and muscular beauties, one should not miss out on this multiple erotic masterpiece.

The 120 pages in this production are brilliantly produced and of such a high print quality that they meet the highest standards of expectations.

Ed Freeman is a multiple talent. Born in 1942 Freeman was a musician for 25 years, produced and arranged tracks with stars such as Cher, Carly Simon and Don McLean. For the last couple of years he has concentrated on his photography. Also in this field Freeman, resident in Los Angeles, sets the standard. His subjects are generally nudes and landscapes - which he adapts, with help from computer technology, into dramatical scenes making use of extreme pictorial language. Not surprising that Ed Freeman is successful in the advertising world. His work is to be found in numerous magazines and anthrological works.

www.EdFreeman.com

Photobook, softcover, 120 pages, 8.25 x 9.25 inch, 17 x 23,5 cm

Lorenzo Gomez: Ironmen

Gomez´ models proudly show off their meaty masculinity against a powerful industrial backdrop. He presents fiery views shot under a scorching sun, stylized and flooded with a superb, warm light.

This photographer isn’t interested in white skins, so we see these “iron men” in a range of skin tones, from coffee-cream, through warm gold, up to ebony. Gomez’ men are obviously proud of the figures they’ve worked so hard to achieve and love posing; yet they don’t always reveal everything. These Latino machos seem to melt into a massive environment of machines, chains and desert sand. A large-format, 96-page book of photos of real “hot stuff”!

Californian Lorenzo Gomez has devoted himself to photographing sexy Latinos for over twenty years. He started specializing in this area after training as a photographer and has already had great success with many publications in calendars, advertisements and magazines. This, his second photo book, follows the publication of his first book “Dios Latino”.

Photobook, softcover, 96 pages, 6.25 x 9.25 inch, 17 x 23,5 cm

Lindsay Lozon: Boys Uncovered

Straight looking, self-confident, and rebellious, Lozon’s well-built boys present themselves with refreshing ease, charming us with their youthful innocence. We don’t always see “everything” in Lozon’s photos. He leaves a lot to our own fantasies. Although these are studio shots, Lozon maintains a direct “snapshot” aesthetic, so the viewer feels as if he’s really “in the thick of things”.

Lindsay Lozon lives in Canada and works as a photographer for various famous fashion magazines and ad agencies. It’s worth noting that Lozon came relatively late to photography, but then worked his way up to be one of Canada’s most important photographers within a very short time.

Lindsay Lozon gives us hot, erotic male portraits in black and white. There are no spectacular settings to distract us from the models. Tantalizing poses reveal a world of unreal beauty, giving the viewer’s own fantasy the freedom to go beyond the point where photography ends.

80 pages of pure, direct photography.

www.lindsaylozon.com

Freshmen - young, fresh, sexy

That’s about time! The book to accompany the successful Freshmen magazine. The premier magazine of the world most beautiful young men, naked and hard. Today for fifteen years - Freshmen presents the youngest, the sexiest guys the world has to offer. Young, fresh, sexy is not a “best of 15 years” compilation. The photos show the best of today. Simply the crème de la crème of the popular photo magazine.

Freshmen, always chock full with typically gorgeous young men who love to pose for the camera. It’s obvious the guys really enjoy these photo shootings and have fun during the whole doing just that. It’s an erotic kind of playfulness these photographers captured that fill the 120-paged photobook know how to express. This is a collection full of passionate youthful eroticism, a collection of opulently printed photos that is sure to get any venerator of young men hot under the collar.

The collection is a "who's who" of successful photographers over the past years. It includes photographers from the house of Bel Ami and Falcon Studios, as well as Ron Lloyd and other well-known photographers of male erotica.

www.freshmen.com

Photobook, hardcover, 120 pages, 8.25 x 11.25 inch, 21 x 28,5 cm

Van Darkholme: Male Bondage - art deserves a witness

Bondage – a corner in the broad spectrum in the world of S&M.
But don’t be mislead. The Japanese style of bondage – namely Shibari - the photos show is about defenceless as much as
it is about beauty and aesthetics . Men in predicament – on purpose and freely chosen. Captivating in every sense of the word – a trip through the darker side of the masculine soul. The dark side never looked this good before!

Bondage sessions are rarely photographed so aesthetically and glamorously. Not just devotees of the strung up will be buying this book off the shelves, but fans of brilliant photography have a wonderful book to add to their collections as well.

Photographer Van Darkholme, who lives in Los Angeles, not only has a foible for taking pictures of bondage session, he also puts himself on stage and invites his audience to take part in these captivating games. Knowing the ins and outs of the knots himself he has a great eye for photographing these images. He has created a high profile for himself with his publications and exhibitions of his work, as well as through his bondage films with Muscle Bound Production.

www.vandarkholme.com

Photobook, hardcover, 80 pages, 8.5 x 9 inch, 22 x 23 cm

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Giovanni: Private Parts

Whether under the shower, in bed, when urinating or shaving – for Giovanni nudity is more than just the exposure of skin. Each of his photos catches the easy, serene and natural sex appeal of the penis and its owner. These naked male bodies, in seemingly profane poses are draped in an aura simply exploding with eroticism. Giovanni again made the conscious decision to not include his model’s faces. His photos are fragments, showing just an outtake of what is going on. This anonymity allows the models to relax into their poses, providing the shots an additional touch of authenticity.

After the smashing success of his first book, Bites, Giovanni continues to pursue his unconventional view of the masculine with his most recent series of photos. However Private Parts is much more than just the simple continuation of Bites, a project he started back in 1995. This second collection provides new perspectives, presents unique situations and captures moments where his models passionately present their most intimate body part, allowing it to be the sole object of our cumulative desire.

Giovanni, pseudonym for a well-known photographer, works in the fashion industry and has been photographing male nudes for several years now with great success. Most of us would recognise his works without realising it stems from his lens. After the bombastic achievement of his first work, Bites, he continues his triumphal procession with Private Parts.

www.bites-by-giovanni.com

Photobook, hardcover, 112 pages, 7 x 9.5 inch, 18 x 24,5 cm

Jay Jorgensen: Shades of Desire

A raunchy male body, a little natural light and a smattering of shadow more the photographer Jay Jorgensen does not need with his black and white pictures in order to arouse our desire. With great precision of style the artist immortalizes his men on film. Undoubtedly, there is still a lot more to look forward to from this photographer.

“Shades of Desire” shows a selection of Jorgensen´s work, the artist manages after a few pages to leave an everlasting impression on the viewer. With a sharp clear optic the photos convey a feeling of lightness and warmth, the photo edition shows both solo shots and couples in love. On eighty pages of soft duotone the viewer comes closer to Jorgensen´s masculine models – a book like a warm summer´s rain.

Jay Jorgensen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1964. Already as a young boy he photographed landscapes and his friends and ever since photography has been part of his life. The winning works of the Tom of Finland prizes were printed in the books “Ecce Homo”, “Naked” and “Nudes Index”. Apart from this his pictures adorned the pages of the magazines Variety and People. Since 1985 the artist lives in Los Angeles.

www.studiojorgen.com

Photobook, hardcover, 80 pages, 7 x 9.5 inch, 18 x 24,5 cm

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Ray Dragon: Real Men

You like the type of gaybars that commonly carry names such as “Eagle” or “Tom’s Bar”? Than this is a photobook to your taste. These photos show the prime cuts of the meat. Real men love to show off what they have – up close and personal – bulging muscles and plenty of tattoo-covered flesh. The combined masculinity of the men in this book is bursting out of the pages even when it's closed! The dream of many gay men will be fulfilled with the release of this book.

Powerful men pose naturally for the camera without any guilt. As
if guys in the dungeons, darkrooms and garage were in the midst
of a play – unaware of the camera. Some exposures show the best piece of men in close ups, detailed and with an incredible use of lighting other shots show scenes in which two or more guys enjoy each other’s bodies. The models include stars from Colt and Titan. An explosion of testosterone – this one goes out to all the guys
that dig “Real Men”.

Porn actor, model, fashion designer and photographer – these
are just a few of the many varied talents of Ray Dragon. After becoming famous through his films with Titan Video and Colt Studios and being photographed himself by such well-known photographers as Jim French and Tom Bianchi. Ray Dragon discovered his love for photography, which shines through in
this collection of his work. A book with which Ray proves another quality to his list of talents…

www.raydragon.com

Photobook, hardcover, 80 pages, 7 x 9.5 inch, 18 x 24,5 cm

Ohm Phanphiroj: Rare Views

Remember how oft you downloaded your snapshots from your digital camera onto your computer – just to find out that you look more like an abomination than you realised. Photos impulsively shot and finding you and your friends in improbable poses and impossible situations. Funny – yes but only for the bystanders. Ohm Phanphiroj’s photography proves different: Rare views.
The viewer is receiving expressions out of first hand.

Ohm's photos in both black-and-white and color allow the viewer to become a voyeur. The apparently coincidental moments he records leave the impression of the illicit observation of young men in the midst of very private moments and intimate situations. His perspective captures candid scenes without any fuss, really quite rare glimpses. Fans of sexy men in an un-staged photographic environment will definitely want this as an addition to their fine art collections.

Photographer Ohm Phanphiroj, originally from Thailand, divides his time between Atlanta, New York, Australia and Bangkok. His art and fashion photography unites his experiences from a wide variety of different fields. The recipient of numerous awards, his works are shown in galleries and museums in the USA, Europe as well as in Asian countries.

www.ohmphotography.com

Photobook, hardcover, 96 pages, 7 x 9.5 inch, 18 x 24,5 cm

Joe Oppedisano: Testosterone

The hormone book: photographer Joe Oppedisano creates a world of archaic male rituals in dark cellars and dirty dungeons where things get straight down to business! Oppedisano boys do not get cut up in emotional affairs but rather by the driving force of instinct. A breath taking picture flow of blood, sweat and sex by which the observer is drawn to his own desires. The rough, the wild and the forceful in Joe Oppedisano's stylised dark pictures of men expose the animal rather than the human.

Oppedisano´s perfect stagings are rough and irresistible. The photographer is not an onlooker but is himself a part of this sexually blown up demimonde. This arena of violence, sexual dominance and humiliation makes every moment pound through the pleading of the men.

Whether in clammy underground heating cellars, slime, decrepit stairways or just simply in the toilet – whoever hangs around here too long, has lost! Treat yourself to this very special hormone therapy with this elegant 192 paged picture book in large format!

Joe Oppedisano is a fashion and lifestyle photographer. He was born in 1967 in New York and studied fashion design in the Fashion Institute of Technology. After a short career as stripper he worked as fashion editor for W, Vanity Fair, L´Uomo, Vogue and others. At the age of 30 he taught himself photography and lives and works in New York.

www.joeoppedisano.com

Photobook, hardcover with dust-jacket, 192 pages, 8.25 x 11.25 inch, 21,5 x 28,5 cm