[hadrian6]

Detail : Hercules and the Lernean Hydra. 1875. Gustave Moreau French 1825-1898. oil/canvas.    http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[queerautism]

Brian Ridley and Lyle Heeter (1979) by Robert Mapplethorpe

A same-sex couple, posed in hypermasculine leather outfits, display bondage equipment that reinforces the perceived power imbalance suggested by their age difference. Yet what is most jarring about this image, perhaps, is the daring mismatch that Mapplethorpe constructed between the sitters’ defiant self-presentations and the scene’s conservative setting. Desires that were often considered extreme are here celebrated as part and parcel of everyday experience.

[...]

During the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s, an era marked by public homophobia and HIV/AIDS-stigmatization, a coalition featuring queer voices came together to affirm the value of Mapplethorpe’s work and to protest attempts to censor it. Mapplethorpe’s depictions of sexuality were defended both as valuable documents of a bygone era and as rigorously composed artworks that spark valuable conversations about identity, Eros, and difference.

Source: Guggenheim - Robert Mapplethorpe: Framing a Sexual Revolution, by Levi Prombaum

[strong-visuals]

(via scjra, scjra, hommes-envie)

[cowboynoon]

(via strong-visuals)

[dominic75]

Le grand duc Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov (1878- 1918) frère du tsar Nicholas II de Russie. (Photographie colorisée)

[mypinholepinups]

Fayz Bey el Azm, a companion of the Emir Faisal, Al-Quwayrah (Jordan)  1918. Autochrome.  (Albert Kahn Collection)

[myselfixion]

[cowboynoon]

[aimer-imaginer-penser]

starlitblack

[nude-and-shy]

Confidence at Home

[pacificpal]

[jtmportland]

[popepauljohn]

[lokosdesnudos]

[artworkbypaul]

Tidy Whities

acrylic on canvas

www.artworkbypaul.com

[newloverofbeauty]

Soldiers Bathing  WW2

[gill-sans]

Tsar Nicholas in Finland, 1912

[magicandman]