Book Description
Rankin Male Nudes draws its subjects from an anonymous ad for models placed in the classifieds column of London's Time Out magazine.
The subjects were then chosen for their ideas about how they wanted to be portrayed rather than how they looked, making this book a true collaboration between photographer and subject.
These men are literally revealing themselves, and the results are funny, sexy, tender, theatrical, and audacious.
While naked women appear in advertisements, films, and newspapers with almost relentless frequency, men do not. Rankin Male Nudes asks why this is, aiming to raise the profile of the male form in the mainstream, and explore the attitudes that inform its presentation and reception.
The subjects were then chosen for their ideas about how they wanted to be portrayed rather than how they looked, making this book a true collaboration between photographer and subject.
These men are literally revealing themselves, and the results are funny, sexy, tender, theatrical, and audacious.
While naked women appear in advertisements, films, and newspapers with almost relentless frequency, men do not. Rankin Male Nudes asks why this is, aiming to raise the profile of the male form in the mainstream, and explore the attitudes that inform its presentation and reception.
About the author
Internationally recognized as a portrait and fashion photographer, Rankin is one of the UK's foremost talents. Rankin's photographs are both humorous and provocative and as creative director of the influential arts magazine Dazed & Confused throughout the 1990s, Rankin helped define the period in popular culture when Brit was inseparably linked with Cool. He is now an international freelance photographer in high demand, and his work regularly appears in advertising campaigns and some of the world's leading newspapers and periodicals.
