The 2011 version of my Best of the Year announcements is going to take two weeks. First up, some books and an aside. And then I’d like to give everyone a little Christmas present. Before I name my favorite books of 2011, however, I’ve got to tell you about one of a previous year’s...
It’s quite an achievement for any business to prosper for 40 years. It seems even more difficult for a porn company to endure that long. But that’s what Falcon Studios has done, so congratulations are offered. If I may not always have been impressed with the company’s product, I’m impressed with their longevity. I’d...
My gift-giving guide this year consists of two books that’ll fit budgets big and small. Both are pretty fuckin’ incredible. Small first. While I intend on writing further about Susie Bright’s memoir Big Sex, Little Death (Seal Press, hardbound, $24.95) , I had to let you know about it now. It struck me deeply...
I’m one of those people who didn’t get it. My expectations some 40 years ago were way off – after all, I first saw Fred Halsted’s L.A. Plays Itself at the Nob Hill, not at some highfalutin Art Film Institute. Even if the setting had been appropriate, I probably wouldn’t have dug the flick....
You have only to check out my bookshelf to find that erections have hardly been absent from “serious” gay photography collections. Even overt, explicit and insertive sex has had its moments. Yet I can’t recall books with such specific, focused intent on – well, call it what you will, sex art or art sex,...
Here’s an event that came up with such short notice I barely had time to tell you about it. If you’re the smart sort of B.A.R. reader who picks it up ASAP, you may be able to take heed. Like tattoos? Like big guys? Then you’ll like photographer Michael Alago’s whole big book of...
The sumptuous, 260-page potpourri of hot photos and concisely presented history Porn from Andy Warhol to X-Tube (Bruno Gmuender, hardcover, $69.99) is both a celebration and a funeral. Its author tells us what there is to know about the development of the art, and then lets current filmmakers and producers tell us the state...
What is it with gay photographers and dogs? There must be a So You Wanna Be a Photographer handbook in which Rule #1 is Get Some Dogs. Gianni Versace had them all over his mansions and his men, and Bruce Weber brought so many of them to Bear Pond that his dog-to-model count seemed...
The picture of Jack Utberg alongside this article? It’s currently my favorite photo of all time. Sheesh, whatta bulge! And when the suit comes off, and you see that the bulge ain’t no triumph of packaging but is all real, well, your little hearts are gonna go pitti-pat. The pic is from Ron Lloyd’s...
When Speedy – The Old Reliable Photos of David Hurles was published in 2005, my reaction was qualified. Many guys groove in a big way on this street trade – classless, cigar-chomping, bird-flipping, only infrequently attractive and nearly uniformly straight. Not so me; I think my love of Pretty is well-known. I found Hurles’...
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