Peter Arnold / Men Exposed ***
14/10/07 21:24
One should think that photographs of naked men, heavily oiled, should be rather boring and staid. But not necessarily so on Peter Arnold's site "Men Exposed", promoting his photo book of the same name. With an eye for abstraction and geometry, Arnold make the nude models appear as Mappelthorpian idealizations of men. Some of the abstractions are very beautiful indeed, the portrait are all quite good, but the plainer nudes look a bit standardized after a while. Well worth a visit, even though one is left with the question of how much of the men is real and how much was photoshopped.
I rate the gallery 3 out of 6 stars.
You can visit Peter Arnold's MEN EXPOSED gallery by clicking here.
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