Artistic Male Nudes
• Erotica , • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
A surprisingly attractive site featuring the earliest male nude photography.
The predecessors of Beefcake photography treated their male models as works of art. They were classical sculptures staged in real life, languid Pre-Raphaelite youths on the rocks, Olympic athletes and Roman soldiers posing on the fields of Germany and in the studios of Paris. While bodybuilders like Sandow enjoyed popularity through their own mass-produced cabinet cards, most early male nude photography featured less-built-up models and seemed to have been printed more with art than marketing in mind.