Last week on Rod 2.0, we previewed a luxe editorial in the March 2008 OUT that features model-of-the-moment Wendell Lissimore. Out.com relates the fascinating back story to the shoot behind "Wash with Like Colors" and interviews the critically-acclaimed Swiss photographer Walter Pfeiffer who has developed a cult following after mostly 30 years of obscurity.
The interview is fascinating snapshot of the photographer's aesthetic. "Pfeiffer seldom asks for frontal nudity from his gorgeous unpaid male subjects,":the profile begins, and, what "you wish were exposed is often casually hidden by an object in the subject’s hands, provoking you to fantasize for days on end. This is a cheerful tip of the hat to vintage beefcake photography."
WP: When I did the first book I said, “We have to show them.” Back then it was a really intimate thing to do. Now I see so many cocks on the Internet that I don’t know how to top it.
OUT: Isn’t this partly because of your interest in glamour?
WP: Definitely. But I’ve dreamed of showing cock in glamorous surroundings. Once I wanted to do it with this boy, and he said, “No way!” And you know how hard it would be to do this with the boys I love.
The Swiss artist says he absolutely never has sex with his models and channels Susan Sontag to rationalize his approach "Because I have so many beautiful pictures of them. And if you have the pictures, you finally have them at the point you wanted them. I only get frustrated when they say they’re not coming back after two days."
If you have the pictures, you finally have them at the point you want them ...
Point and Shoot [OUT]
Excerpt: On Photography [SusanSontag.com]
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give us more wendell he's need a fansite...am i right?
Posted by: miamimami | 16 March 2008 at 13:00