Antony Gormley

playboy november 1986

"Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences, and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me. " - Marlon Brando, 1976

everything in the whole world is erotic. except for sex. sex is too on the nose. 

Fragment (variation), William Mortensen, 1930-39

'the dissection of a young, beautiful woman directed by johann christian gustave lucae in order to determine the ideal female proportions' by johann heinrich hasselhorst, 1864 in the art of medicine: over 2000 years of images and imagination - julie anderson, emm barnes + emma shackleton (2011)

Harper's Bazaar Italia, June/July 1997.

Ph. Davide Cernuschi

“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.