[antonio-m]

"Bust of Antinous Dionysus". Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. marble and bronze

[speedobomb]

Speedobomb

[voguefashion]

L’Uomo Vogue 70s & 80s Covers

Helmut Berger by Oliviero Toscani (October/November 1973)

Paul Newman by Marka (June/July 1975)

Jack Nicholson by Klaus Lukas (August 1975)

Ryan O’Neal by Oliviero Toscani (August 1977)

Rudolf Nureyev by Oliviero Toscani (December 1979)

Rupert Everett by John Bishop (September 1984)

Jeremy Irons by Tony McGee (January 1982)

Hugh Grant by Lord Snowdon (December 1987)

Gary Oldman by Lord Snowdon (February 1988)

Daniel Day-Lewis by Herb Ritts (May 1988)

[zanephillips]

ZANDER HODGSON Ray Donovan 5.09 "Mister Lucky"

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

Richard Egan poses at home in Los Angeles, California (1955)

[megairea]

[...] I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945

[c86]

Photography by Keast Burke, c. 1940s

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

[wildspringday]

rock hudson photographed in his home in hollywood by sid avery, 1952

[pierppasolini]

My Own Private Idaho (1991) // dir. Gus Van Sant

[camisoledadparis]

A rare self portrait photograph from 1937 entitled "Narcissus" of a young Charles Henry Ford 1908-2002. He was American & a gifted poet, novelist, diarist, filmmaker, photographer & collage maker, & circulated in the Gay Aesthetic movement of his time. His life long partner was Russian born Pavel Tchelitchew, a Surrealist painter, set & costume designer.

[twixnmix]

Elizabeth Taylor photographed by Firooz Zahedi in Iran, 1976.

[twixnmix]

Diana Ross modeling a dress she designed for her role as Tracy Chambers in "Mahogany" (1975).

Photos by Steve Schapiro 

[ohyeahpop]

Dolph Lundgren, 1986 - Ph. Herb Ritts

[the-evil-clergyman]

Persée délivrant Andromède by Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois (1913)

[creartistiq-blog]

The Swiss Alterophilist Maurice Deriaz 1885/1974 posed for at least 3 paintings by Gustave Courtois 1852/1923,

Upon his arrival in Paris in 1907, the young Deriaz aged 22 was taken under the wing of G. Courtois 55, a flamboyant homosexual who did not hide it. If he managed to convince the young man to pose for him, it is probable, but not proven that he offered more than monetary compensation to obtain his private rights

Followed in 1912, Hercules at the foot of Omphale

And in 1913, Perseus freeing Andromeda

These two myths represent dominant-submissive relationships. Did Deriaz have a relationship of this type with an older Courtois that would be coded in the paintings?

Study with Deriaz

These three paintings, never sold, were hung in his house in Baulmes in Switzerland, and since his death exhibited at the town hall of Baulmes

[qualityavenuejellyfish]

Detail of Maurice Dériaz posing in the studio of Gustave Courtois. 1914

[mrmousetolliver]

The New Yorker June 17, 1996

[chantssecrets]

images from the book A Time of Youth: San Francisco 1966–1967 (2021), 📸 by William Gedney