Classic Beauty: Part 2
Photographs of the Male Nude

JUNE 21 - SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Featured artists include:
Anderson & Low
Lucien Clergue
Wilhelm von Gloeden
Steven Haas
George Platt Lynes
Robert Mapplethorpe
Dianora Niccolini
Guglielmo Pluschow
Herb Ritts
Michael Stratton
Nicholas Walster
Edward Weston
Kao Yuan
Marcos Zimmermann
and others

“Beauty is now as much a man’s responsibility as a woman’s.”
- David Leddick, The Male Nude

Following the success of last summer’s CLASSIC BEAUTY: Photographs of Female Nudes, Throckmorton Fine Art is pleased to announce CLASSIC BEAUTY: PART 2, Photographs of the Male Nude.

A mixture of vintage and new, the exhibition will offer works for both classic and contemporary audiences, while also exploring the history of male nude photography.  On display will be nineteenth century examples by Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, one of the earliest known photographers to take still nudes of males, as well as works by the Baron’s cousin, Guglielmo Pluschow.  Also on view will be recent acquisitions of twentieth century photos by Herb Ritts (Waterfall II, Hollywood, 1988), Argentinean artist, Marcos Zimmermann (Muchacho y perro, Corrientes, 1997), and Taiwanese newcomer, Kao Yuan (Japan #1, Tattooed gangster, 1991).  In the twenty-first century, the British team, Anderson & Low, embrace the digital revolution with mural size C-type prints (Aaron Jackson, Gymnast, USAFA, 2001) asserting a place for large format images in the history of male nude photography.