Cyd_StVincent Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 I love the aesthetics of Polaroids and the subject & context of those above in the '70's is perfect for that raw, in-your-face realism. Looking at #15, 21, 25 & 42 above is like a moment of deja-vu... you can practically hear the creaking of the door opening when you step into the tiny room and smell the sex. tagging @Cyd_StVincent for filmaker fun I love all these photos! I am especially so so into the ones posted by @Moondance <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 77 "I was ruthless in my self-analysis, taking Polaroid after Polaroid of my various poses and annotating each shot with notes on what was weak in the pose and what could be improved. I started taking pictures of all of my competitors and would put the pictures of people who beat me on the dashboard of my car so I would be reminded constantly of my goals. More than one of my girlfriends at the time thought it was pretty weird to see a picture of some hulking, half-naked dude in a Speedo taped above my car’s air conditioning vents." ... Charles Sieg, bodybuilder http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2824/9010461883_06f674376d_c.jpg TruthBTold, bigvalboy, Gvtire and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 21, 2017 Author Share Posted June 21, 2017 78 79 http://31.media.tumblr.com/FmSxZkQa4kkp2ehrsp4Tfh1zo1_500.jpg 80 http://fuckjpg.com/201606/30/1671960415.jpg 81 http://img2.nudedworld.com/201402/24/1939761971.jpg 82 http://img2.nudedworld.com/201402/24/1394283976.jpg 83 Whitman and beachboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 Men on Polaroids (images 84-90) is a series by Moscow-based fashion photographer Serge Lee ... 84 http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-02.jpg 85 http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-23.jpg 86 http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-21.jpg 87 http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-17.jpg 88 http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-14.jpg 89 http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-03.jpg 90 http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-04.jpg TruthBTold, + honcho and + Just Sayin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthBTold Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Men on Polaroids (images 84-90) is a series by Moscow-based fashion photographer Serge Lee ... Gee, I see some great looking guys but not a lot of fashion for a "Moscow-based fashion photographer." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 91 The Mary Moorman Polaroid of JFK's Assassination Mary Moorman (born 1932) was a witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Her famous Polaroid photograph of the event captured the presidential limousine approximately one-sixth of a second after the fatal shot. Moorman was standing about two feet south of the south curb of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, directly across from the grassy knoll and the North Pergola concrete structure that Abraham Zapruder was standing on. Moorman says she stepped onto the street to take her photo. Zapruder is seen standing on the pergola in the Moorman photograph, with the presidential limousine already having passed through the line of sight between Zapruder and Moorman. Moorman and her friend, Jean Hill, can be clearly seen in many frames of the Zapruder film. Between Zapruder film frames Z-315 and 316, Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background. In 2013, Moorman attempted to sell the original Polaroid; it was expected to sell at auction for between $50,000 and $75,000, but did not meet its reserve. She had previously attempted to sell the item at Sotheby's in New York, but the auction house deemed it "too sensitive to auction." What was captured in the background of the photo has been a matter of debate. On the grassy knoll, some claim to have identified as many as four different figures, while others dismiss these indistinct images as trees or shadows. Gvtire and TruthBTold 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 92 - by Paul Rowland 93 - by Paul Rowland 94 - by Paul Rowland + Just Sayin, Gvtire and Danny-Darko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 95 http://www.roosterhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/maninpolaroidab1080.jpg Whitman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 (edited) 96 - by Serge Lee http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KpakGntgvu0/VKwegQja36I/AAAAAAAB_PE/ylcc2TSvIz8/s1600/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-01.jpg Edited June 23, 2017 by Moondance Danny-Darko, + honcho, Whitman and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 97 - by Serge Lee http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_GagxkcyzUo/VKwemd7SCkI/AAAAAAAB_QU/oPC7SqznTQ4/s1600/Polaroids-Homotography-Serge-Lee-12.jpg 98 - by Serge Lee http://2depaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Polaroids-Serge-Lee-13.jpg Whitman, TruthBTold and + Pensant 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 99 - by David Hockney (Polaroid collage) http://images.vogue.it/gallery/22198/Big/b005c392-af2b-4037-af7d-75dce8d6bbf7.jpg Whitman and bigvalboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 24, 2017 Author Share Posted June 24, 2017 100 http://www.boutiquetestsite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Konrad.jpg 101 http://www.boutiquetestsite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Browsing-Grindr.jpg 102 http://www.boutiquetestsite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/0004.jpg bigvalboy, beachboy, TruthBTold and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 27, 2017 Author Share Posted June 27, 2017 103 - by Kiu Meireles (self-portrait) Gvtire, beachboy, bigvalboy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 27, 2017 Author Share Posted June 27, 2017 104 http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33300000/unknown-models-vintage-beefcake-33392645-1053-1280.jpg Whitman and beachboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted June 27, 2017 Author Share Posted June 27, 2017 105 - Untitled, by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1973 http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdckjkr2du1qazanuo1_1280.jpg + Just Sayin, Whitman and bigvalboy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 106 Dear Uncle Frank: A Photographer's Exploration of Gay Myths and Family Truths by Pacifico Silano, time.com, November 26, 2013 http://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/frank.jpg?w=275 My uncle Frank Silano died from complications of AIDS in December 1989. My family rarely spoke of him. He was a mystery to me. The few things I did know were generalities: he was gay, lived in New York and died young. I always wanted to know more, but no one could tell me anything else. It took me a quarter-century to begin unraveling who he was. It started with a Polaroid I received when my parents separated. It was the first photograph I had ever seen of my uncle; I had never seen his face before. In the picture he seemed so serious, wearing a coat and tie with the camera's flash reflected in a nearby mirror. It looked like one of those snapshots a family member might take when you're on your way out the door after a holiday dinner or gathering. I studied that Polaroid thinking it might be a clue to who my uncle was. I figured if I could know him, I might have a better sense of myself. Around this time I had a major falling out with my father over being gay. The experience made me feel closer to this outsider that the family forgot. My attempts to find more photographs and stories of my uncle yielded no results. It was incredibly frustrating and in many ways I felt defeated. I had intended to make a project about him, but with virtually no source material or support I had to put my focus elsewhere. If I couldn't make a portrait of Frank Silano I decided I would make one about other gay men who died as a result of the AIDS epidemic. I took that Polaroid of my uncle and I hung it up on my studio wall. It would serve as motivation and a constant reminder of Frank and of how lucky I am to be gay and alive today. In 2010 I began to research the history of the LGBTQ community. I started reading about the Stonewall Riots and the gay rights movement. Fascinated with the sexual liberation and visibility of gay men after 1969, I watched probably every documentary I could about the AIDS epidemic. I collected ephemera and vintage pornography. I found myself drawn to depictions of hyper-masculinity that seemed at odds with the conventional views of gay men. I began re-contextualizing images from old magazines, found photographs and negatives, in part as a way of breathing life into the past. When I couldn't find an image that represented my own vision, I would stage a photograph. These ideas became the basis for my project, a series highlighting the innocence and naivety of these men as well as foreshadowing what came later. In the summer of 2012 I received an Aaron Siskind Fellowship for this body of work and used the funds to pursue similar ideas. I specifically focused on creating a photo installation titled "Pages of a Blueboy Magazine." Consisting of one hundred cropped headshots of male centerfolds, I chose models from issues that ranged between the years 1974 and 1983 (the year Blueboy published their first article on AIDS). Each man's gaze is meant to draw the viewer in and contemplate the mortality of not only the model but also the men who originally consumed the imagery. The work had its debut at the Bronx Museum of the Art's 2nd AIM Biennial in June 2013. My most recent project, Male Fantasy Icon, furthers the themes I've explored in the past. By creating imagery with Al Parker, one of the most famous gay porn stars of the 1970s, I've produced photographs that memorialize and draw attention to a lost generation of gay men. The process of making these new pictures and reworking images from the past has allowed me to catalog and emphasize a neglected history, one that is imbued with my own fantasies of a place and time I feel I know, but that I never lived through. In creating all of these photographs, I have gained a better understanding of what life might have been like for my uncle. I'll never hear his stories first-hand, but something has nevertheless been passed on. Sometimes I like to think that he's guiding me through my own work. When I'm lost for an idea in the studio, I'll look up at that old Polaroid and I'll remember how my journey began. + DERRIK, + HornyRetiree, TruthBTold and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Just Sayin Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 @Moondance this is really touching; thank you for posting it for us TruthBTold and + HornyRetiree 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Keith30309 Posted July 5, 2017 Share Posted July 5, 2017 Neat story - thank you for sharing ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 5, 2017 Author Share Posted July 5, 2017 107 108 http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcvmsgQLcr1qdoso9o1_500.jpg 109 110 a/b - by Bryant Eslava Whitman, beachboy, MikeBiDude and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 111 - by Jeremy Kost http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/375314/slide_375314_4385648_free.jpg 112 - by Jeremy Kost http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/375314/slide_375314_4385664_free.jpg 113 - by Jeremy Kost http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/375314/slide_375314_4385662_free.jpg Gvtire, Whitman, N13 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 114 - by Andy Warhol, two Polaroids of male model, ca. 1977 http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/351691/slide_351691_3799695_free.jpg 115 - by Andy Warhol, two Polaroids of male model, ca. 1977 http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/351691/slide_351691_3799692_free.jpg 116 - by Andy Warhol - four Polaroids - Bodybuilder (Keith Peterson), 1983 http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/351691/slide_351691_3799698_free.jpg Leo, + Pensant, + Just Sayin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 7, 2017 Author Share Posted July 7, 2017 117 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YZBdNVYAIj0/S-V_o6sNrqI/AAAAAAAABAI/9og7LITevbo/s1600/1990s-!BsqTgJQCWk~%24(KGrHqIOKiYEu,Ej)!)7BL4)0w,M2w~~_3.jpg 118 http://68.media.tumblr.com/4b2ef0e82b30a365226ef8bffc20bd59/tumblr_omzob5szSK1qfdnxao2_1280.jpg 119 http://www.malemodelscene.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RyanDaharsh01.jpg 120 http://68.media.tumblr.com/751dfb99987bfc5498befd05b80b3940/tumblr_oo3gn20Dbx1qfdnxao1_540.jpg 121 http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m18mmniAuU1r5nqawo1_1280.jpg bigvalboy, Leo, + Pensant and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruthBTold Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 119 http://www.malemodelscene.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/RyanDaharsh01.jpg Yum, cum to my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 122 - by Tom Bianchi http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xiBthOFHf58/UbCBCTqvA-I/AAAAAAABU8Y/uLK4aTA5GWE/s1600/Tom-Bianchi-Interview-2.jpg 123 - by Tom Bianchi http://d4f1ndlb0hkjb.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tom10.jpg 124 - by Tom Bianchi http://fabrik.la/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Fire_Island_Pines_3.jpg TruthBTold, + Just Sayin, Whitman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 125 http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n168/frambojan/pornaj.jpg 126 http://slutever.com/wp-content/uploads/Danny-Fields-boys-kiss.jpg 127 http://argonauticos.tumblr.com/image/159064338148 128 http://www.gusmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/BIANCHI_PAG_6-620x741.jpg Whitman, beachboy, Gvtire and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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