ABSTRACT

Fully Exposed is a pioneering cultural history of the photography of the male nude which sets the photographer and the model within our cultural and historical perceptions and prejudices. This second edition extends the book's coverage so that the story from the beginnings of the medium to the present day is complete.
Fully Exposed is lavishly illustrated with over two hundred and fifty photographs,many of them new to this edition. Different chapters discuss how the male nude has been used by artists, the way it has been treated in the popular press,in relation to British colonialism and scientific ideology. It also discusses `private pictures' taken at home or acquired as erotic material by the private collector. A final chapter brings the book up-to-date and discusses the male nude in the nineties.
The combination of art criticism and photographic essay make this an unusual and important book both for academics and the general reader.

chapter 1|22 pages

All For Art

The Male Nude in the Service of ART

chapter 2|18 pages

Evidence of the Real

The Male Nude in Science and Medicine

chapter 3|18 pages

The ‘Noble Savage’

Imperialism and the Colonial Experience

chapter 4|18 pages

Nakedness in Nature

Naturism, the Simple Life and Nudist Photography

chapter 5|22 pages

Form Not Content

Physique Photography, Body Building and the Body Beautiful

chapter 6|16 pages

‘Done in Good Taste’

The Nude in Newspapers, Magazines and Advertising

chapter 7|20 pages

Private Pictures

The Personal Album and the Erotic Image

chapter 8|16 pages

‘On Aesthetic Grounds Alone’

Turn-of-the-Century Nudes, Artistic and Erotic

chapter 9|18 pages

The New Realism

Pictorialism, the New Wave and the Birth of the Modern Nude

chapter 10|53 pages

Celebration and Confrontation

The Male Nude Today

chapter 11|33 pages

Holding Down an Image

The Male Nude in the Nineties